Willa Glickman

‘An Internal Colony’

“What makes the Ozarks unique is that the richest family in the world lives in what is historically one of the poorest regions in the country.”

The Climate Election: Fighting for a Greener Future

Vegetative States

“Just about everything we have learned about the natural world in recent decades suggests that qualities like intelligence and sentience are much more widely distributed across the animal kingdom.”

Shadow Drafting

“Archival research can be magical, maddening, and sobering. Finding just one mention of an enslaved person’s name or an enslaved family’s home in a record can feel monumental.”

In the Path of Totality

Dispatches from the 2024 solar eclipse

The Price of Stability

“Prabowo’s victory opens a window onto how the depredations, violence, and corruption of the Suharto era unevenly influence the present.”

Crash

“Movies and automobiles developed hand in hand, in every way.”

How To Film A City

In his series for HBO, John Wilson obsessively catalogued footage of New York and its oddballs.

Hidden Crimes

“The cobalt they produced was going into our phone and electric vehicle batteries. How could we be basing the future on such a dysfunctional and tragic practice?”

The Decadent Life of the Mind

“There aren’t a lot of freelance philosophers in the world anymore. I can wake up in the morning, dream up any text I like of any length and any degree of complexity, in any style and on any topic, and just sit down and write it.”

‘People Are Not a Crisis’

Eric Adams has insisted that his administration is doing its best to house New York’s asylum seekers, but the city’s shortage of shelter space is the result of political choices.

The New Organizers

“It’s a strange moment: there is simultaneously extreme wealth and skyrocketing real estate prices and rents but also austerity for anything in the public sphere (other than the police).”

Writing into Silence

“What happens when, through education and the resulting social mobility, the writer comes to incarnate power over others—like the person they once were?”

The Fight for Fair Wages

America’s lowest-paid workers are at a breaking point, and grassroots labor organizing may offer the only way out.

‘A Wakeup Call from Hell’

By striking for safe staffing levels, New York City nurses joined a wave of labor unrest that has swept the health care industry in response to Covid-19.

Tracking the Trolls

“With Bolsonaro out of the way, I look forward to writing more about mental health issues and other topics of everyday life.”

Man About the House

“It would be good for voters’ confidence in democracy if there were a clearer connection between what people vote for in an election and what a governing party is able to do once it wins power.”

Where the Sidewalk Ends

“We live in time; our lives unfold in time and are largely determined by time.”

The Crossroads

“Do we continue to place the vast majority of our hopes, expectations, time, and commitment in conventional politics that produce outcomes insufficient for the crises confronting our society and species?”

Empire Records

“The most popular histories are usually of leaders and wars—‘chaps and maps.’ After the fortieth Churchill biography, that can get tedious.”