Happy Holidays!
This year, 2020. … the less we speak of it, the better, right? Still, it needs to be said that: In the face of…
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Jihad, universalism, and the Left: A conversation with Darryl Li
Since its publication in 2019, Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press) has been the focus…
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Escape, Exposure, and Life on the Pacific Crest Trail
An act of walking into the wilderness implies an act of walking out of somewhere or something. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), which extends…
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On unsolicited nostalgia and Tinder frustrations
‘I’ve been here before’ – the feeling of the present being firmly rooted in the past can be intense and disorienting. It is difficult…
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A Possible Anthropology with Anand Pandian
Anand Pandian speaks to Allegra editor Ian M. Cook about his latest book A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke, 2019). Special guests…
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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, was Ruth Bader, later…
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“Imperialist Goats” & Tanzania’s Oct. 28 Elections
If you look at one of those world maps that show where Covid-19 cases are currently spiking, you will notice that the United Republic…
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The Montanelli Case: Sexuality, Race, and Colonial Forgetting in BLM Italy.
Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), the most famous journalist in Italian history, is an intellectual figure whose memory commands respect across Italy’s political spectrum. But, following…
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Atmospheres of change
This month, Chileans will decide whether to set in motion a process to change the country’s dictatorship-era constitution while marking a year since the…
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Conversation with Francisco Martinez on his work on the afterlife of Soviet cultural heritage
Keiti Kljavin interviews Francisco Martínez on the afterlife of Soviet cultural heritage and his book Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia (Winner of…
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In Memoriam: Sally Engle Merry
Meg Davis Sally Engle Merry got more of a kick than anyone I know from not only thinking big and aiming high herself, but…
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What to do with the predator in your bibliography?
In the early summer of 2020 I submitted what I presumed was a final round of extremely minor revisions to an article that I’d…
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