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Meditations in an Emergency is an independent publication launched in January 2025 by Rebecca Solnit. If you subscribe today, you'll get full access to the website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available.
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The Right Word is Wrongness
I've been in northern New Mexico for more than two weeks, in what is normally the monsoon season, but there has been no rain beyond a brief, quickly evaporated spatter of drops three times so far. The plants are parched, and the usual green regeneration o
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A is for Airtight Categories, B for Blanket Statements, C for Cherrypicking....
I spend a lot of time thinking about our habits of mind, overarching stories, and unexamined assumptions that shape thought. Because behind the events that shape our world are communications and representations and behind them are thoughts and ideas and f
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Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires
To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security ("They don't mean me") or by despair ("There's nothing we can do"). Each of us must find our work and do it. --Audre LordeSome
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Lifeguards and Angels
I have lived a long time but I have never lived through such a time of destruction, of nature, of human lives, of truth, fact, science, journalism, the rule of law. I write during a summer of colossal wildfires, of extreme heat, of human rights abuses, of
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Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern
Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the British government, which seeks to extradite them to face a long list of charges. Andrew Tate is charged with "seven further counts of rape
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