Portfolio Roaming the Halls of the Prado in Search of the Three Kings Madrid This past Saturday, in anticipation of Three Kings Day, I headed up to the Prado Museum hoping to see all the paintings of the adoration Imperialism Without Pretense America's Crass President is Pulling Back the Curtain on the American Empire When I learned of the news from Caracas, A Good Slide, the Circularity of Time, and the Meaning of Holidays. Last April, during Holy Week, a Catholic neighbor of mine in Madrid corrected me when I wished him "Happy Easter" in The Plain Spoken Brilliance of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Resignation Speech I was in a coffee shop in a small town in Georgia listening to live folk-country music when I received The Multicultural Politics of Neoliberalism Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and Zohran Mamdani all have at least two things in common. 1) They all had/have foreign-born The Faces of Late Summer Some of the People We Came Across on Our Travels Over the Past Two Months to East Java, Singapore, Kansas Liberalism Uplifts, Democracy Levels. Autocracy Threatens When the Two Can’t Come Together. One of the principal conceits of liberalism—the political doctrine, not the agenda—is Does the Future Belong to America’s Lawyers or China’s Engineers? When I picked up a copy of Dan Wang’s Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, I had no clue how How (Dutch) Realism Both Reveals and Obscures Utrecht, Netherlands A good writer knows what to leave out of a sentence. A great photographer knows what to exclude Does Diversity Require the Policing of Speech? Reflections on the State of America’s Integrationist Nationalism Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia So pervasive is the integrationist logic of post-civil rights America that it's sometimes instructive--if not a 1 2 3 … 8 Next »
