Dispatches From Exile

"When the storm passes" (Esperanza - Hope) by Alexis Valdés Translation of Alexis Valdés  poem "Esperanza" (Hope) written in Spanish in March 2020 about the humanitarian crisis brought "by the Coronavirus and the "hope" of how we will feel when the "Storm Passes"...

Gotterdammerung^[1]The last days of the Third Reich, taking its name from the end of Wagner's ‘Der Ring des Nibellungen.' The word means "Twilight of the Gods," and signals the end with chaos and destruction. Our understanding of historical narrative is not static....

This is the woman whose statue will replace that of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol When Barbara Johns was just 16 years old, she led a walkout at her high school to protest poor and unequal school conditions. The moment is one that many historians believe helped...

I read an article this morning that considered a recent book The Consumer Citizen by Ethan Porter. The gist of Porter's argument is that Americans don't think like citizens but rather consumers. The difference is that citizenship implies responsibilities and...