Samar says that she too used to have a heart of stone
She treated war injuries as a medical student during Lebanon’s civil war, and her patients became their injuries: names and numbers. But then she had children and things changed. Now, she says, she can’t handle the blood, the gore, any of it.
July 23, 2026
Wednesday evening. It’s time to go to the pub!
July 15, 2026
The long wait for the elusive sixth title at the World Cup has successfully destroyed the faith of many of Brazil’s most stalwart football nationalists
Somewhere in the fifty-second minute, as the ball is passed calmly around Brazil’s back four, fireworks erupt down the street. In confusion, I look to my partner, who seems to have understood something that I have not—courtesy of Bahia’s inconsistent internet services, our broadcast is delayed. He’s on his feet, ecstatic: “It’s a goal for Brazil!”
July 14, 2026
Watching the beautiful game like never before, courtesy of Referee View Powered by Lenovo AI.
So what are ref cams for? Far from decentering refs, the body cams intentionally frame them as protagonists with whom we are supposed to empathize, whose eyes we should learn to see the world through.
June 23, 2026
The idea of buying Greenland is less a historical deviation than a revival of a longstanding practice of buying sovereignty, one that goes hand in hand with the expropriation of land by force
Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into the present, with or without Kalaallit Nunaat. Buying Greenland was more than a threat to NATO, it was a threat to make American empire visible again.
We have had too much America and not enough América in our shared hemispheric life.
April 2, 2026
At the Prairieland trial
The prosecutorial strategy is a puerile one: completely overwhelm the jury with unrelated images of leftist protest—for ten full days!—and then hope for guilt by association.
March 13, 2026
2026 Olympics Recap
The presumption that the world follows American athletes in particular at anything like the level that NBC coverage suggests is its own breed of bias. But as the NBA All-Star ads reminded us throughout the first Olympic week, we have committed as a country to the format of “USA vs. World.”
February 24, 2026
But, after eleven years of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the project of erasing the ordinary is clear and unassailable.
January 16, 2026
Notes on the current uprising
The ongoing uprising is rooted in the political economy of structural adjustment, which forms the unstable medium through which revolt becomes contagious.
The decay and disarray are our own, while China rockets humanity into the future.
Feminism has always been divided
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. And we will encounter them, Lewis argues, because they’re everywhere.
