Idols that ring hollow
For the occasion of this year’s Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, the likeness of a migrant woman was chosen for […]
Today’s Totalitarian Menace
Wherever one looks across the globe today democracy is in decline and trends towards what was once called “totalitarianism” are
Connected by extension – How paying connects old regimes and new isolations
The situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Me
In the depths of the Depression, two girls were born to Jewish parents in New York City. One, in 1933,