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A photograph, Cole reminds us, captures the thinnest sliver of time. Any photograph of a man in blackface—or any racist image—implies that “there’s a lot more where that came from.” (article)
The historian walks us through the shift in America’s leftist politics, and the photographer contemplates the persistence of blackface in American culture. (episode)
The historian Jill Lepore says we should not be surprised that socialism is once again popular—because we’re not even sure what it means.
A photograph, Cole reminds us, captures the thinnest sliver of time. Any photograph of a man in blackface—or any racist image—implies that “there’s a lot more where that came from.”
The writer Valeria Luiselli volunteered as a court translator for child migrants. Her latest novel, “Lost Children Archive,” borrows from the stories she helped tell.
When the actor Richard E. Grant was fourteen, he wrote a letter to Barbra Streisand. Forty-seven years later, she answered.