In which it was as predictable as it is unfathomable. The Death of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Formidable Opponent
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In which it was boring, yes, but also scary as hell, and I tell you why. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

In which two recent court cases were painful and at times inspiring to watch newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

In which I wrote about a war that looks like it will never end. Ukraine’s Democracy in Darkness
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This is incredible news for our school. Journalism education will to be free. Soon

In which I remember Lev: newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

Over the years people have DM'd me on this platform asking where I got my glasses. I always got them at SEE, but will not anymore. 10 days ago a salesman in a SEE shop on Madison Ave was shockingly rude to me. Complaining to SEE has yielded nothing but a generic email

I got a prize and gave a talk. It didn't go as planned, and this wasn't the talk I'd prepared. But I'm glad I got to say this. zeit.de/kultur/2023-12…

Update: have now had more requests for comment than I can handle (but I'm trying). Remaining business: please get my pronouns right. Haaretz.com I'm looking at you. They/them

You'd think, with all the attention to the Arendt Prize debacle, I'd be inundated with media calls/texts. You'd be wrong. Not one German journalist has reached out for comment. One US journalist did. All reporting has happened with no input/reaction from me. Inaccuracies pile up

In which I argue that we place the Holocaust outside of history and refuse to learn from it. In the Shadow of the Holocaust
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In which I got to interview Robert Jay Lifton, if you can believe it. How to Maintain Hope in an Age of Catastrophe
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In which some people tried to speak up. Inside the Israeli Crackdown on Speech
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In which I asked about the particular pain of being and Israeli anti-occupation activist right now. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

In which I wrote about a 35-year conflict that most of my readers have never heard about. The Violent End of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Fight for Independence
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In which I spent a year trying to wrap my mind around this. Another Country
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I am so honored, and I can't wait to join Graciela Mochkofsky's team journalism.cuny.edu/2023/06/newmar…

In which I think this was an accidental coup. Prigozhin Showed Russians That They Might Have a Choice
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This, from a couple of weeks ago, has held up well. My argument was, and is, that the threat to Putin's regime is not in lack of 'support for the war,' whatever that means in a totalitarian society, but in losing the monopoly on political speech and action