Brief Encounters

Beyond Digital Feminism

“When I was a young blogger, stories about motherhood and reproductive rights were often relegated to the style section. Feminist bloggers reshaped mainstream media.”

June 19, 2021

On a Quest to Know Everything

“We’re living through a moment when the inhuman scale and complexity of the world has been made visible to us, and we are reacting in human ways. Paranoia is understandable, even logical.”

June 12, 2021

A Proclivity for the Unknown

“I was always attracted by the cosmos—the night sky and the deep, dark mysteries it held have always seduced me.”

June 5, 2021

The True Cost of Living

“Gross inequity begets precarity and suffering, which begets fear, shame, and frustration.”

May 29, 2021

Theater, Politics, and Critic

“The way the personal and the political overlap in certain public lives can be illuminating for both arenas.”

May 22, 2021

The Enduring Promise of Moral Capitalism

“To put political muscle and government funding behind the Constitution’s vow ‘to promote the general Welfare’ has been and remains the best way to unify Democrats and win.”

May 15, 2021

Crossing the ‘Pink Line’

“Globally, the new battleground is over so-called gender ideology. This is defining the next human rights frontier.”

May 8, 2021

See Rome and Feel Alive

“The city itself is an artistic treasure, so there was always something to see even when museums were closed.”

May 1, 2021

What We Want When We Read

“I always hope to be totally destroyed by a novel.”  

April 24, 2021

Asking the Right Questions

“I am interested in how much freedom a person can have—this freedom leading them to something that only they can do.”

April 17, 2021