Immigration’s “Malaise”
Today […] as never before, a sound immigration and naturalization system is essential to the preservation of our way of life, because that system is...
Today […] as never before, a sound immigration and naturalization system is essential to the preservation of our way of life, because that system is...
When coronavirus became a thing, I remember thinking first, narcissistically, Oh, f**k, here come the racist taunts and slurs. My hindsight was not...
On March 15, 2020, the University of New Mexico Press released my A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World, a collection of essays...
My cohort of over-65 people are supposed to be enjoying the new Age of Longevity. But do some younger people still associate us older folks with...
Learning how to breathe
This is the first of a series of essays on the pandemic, the rest of which will appear regularly in The Philosophical Salon, edited by Michael...
Anyone who has ever stood in a long line at an airport can sympathize with the plight of the travelers returning from abroad, when they found...
Is the coronavirus the end of the world as we know it? I was always told the world was going to end. In 1971, when I was a kid, George, the leader of...
It feels like just yesterday that we began to hear the ominous term, “social distancing,” with its quasi-public health connotation — stay away from...
On Thursday, October 11, 2019, people gathered to protest the Turkish invasion of Syria in front of the headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party...
The same bullet that they use to kill us, they make into a necklace and sell at the market. The bullet is not blind; the wind makes it blind...
My L.A. in Four Locations is a running feature in which Angelenos share the story of their city through four specific places. This week, Peter...
My L.A. in Four Locations is a running feature. This week, Sloane Tanen returns to the Los Angeles of her girlhood.
What’s a “casual” anthology? In contrast to its canonical or thematic cousins, this three-volume creation is likened by editor Susan La Tempa to both...
My L.A. in Four Locations is a running feature. This week, Ariel N. Banayan leads a tour of his “Tehrangeles.”
What brings you joy? — Marie Kondo