How a Global Crisis Turns Into a Personal Crisis

“Moral injury can be triggered by committing, witnessing, or failing to prevent an act that violates one’s personal ethical code.” With journalists covering Covid-19 deaths and state violence against protestors around the clock, how do they avoid long-term impact?

Published: Jul 27, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,780 words)

Feeling Bullish: On My Great-Uncle, Gay Matador and Friend of Hemingway

“In his suit, with his pigtail and his montera, he was pure potential: he could be masculine vanquisher or gold-embroidered fairy. He was both, actually, at all times, and nobody who came to see him fight thought any less of him for it.”

Source: Granta
Published: Jun 29, 2020
Length: 47 minutes (11,917 words)

Deeply, Deeply Diseased

The Trillbilly Worker’s Party podcast is anticapitalist with a sense of humor and a Southern twang—though your nana might want to wash their mouths out with soap.

Author: Cy Brown
Published: Jul 28, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,886 words)

What It Means to Be a Hero

“Acts of courage in the age of Covid-19.”

Source: New Statesman
Published: Jul 22, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,550 words)

I Ran Away To a Remote Scottish Isle. It Was Perfect

“Crowded out of the city by noise and stress, I embraced the wild solitude of a Hebridean island – and found a connection to nature.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Jul 26, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,343 words)

My Midlife Crisis as a Russian Sailor

“For a book project about 16th-century polar explorer William Barents, Andrea Pitzer needed to reach the remote Arctic island where he and his men came to grief. She booked passage on an expeditionary boat out of Murmansk, then headed north on a trip marked by unforgettable scenery, unexpected loss, and wild magic that changed her life.”

Source: Outside
Published: Jul 27, 2020
Length: 28 minutes (7,025 words)

The Poison of Male Incivility

On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s powerful speech on the House floor, and the entrenched narrative of the “disruptive” woman.

Source: The Cut
Published: Jul 24, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,713 words)

We Bet You Miss Weddings. America’s Greatest Wedding Band Does Too.

“The carefree manner in which the guests of the wedding interacted with one another that night stamps this story in a specific time a seeming eternity ago, before social distancing and quarantine and a great big pause on America’s $60-billion-plus-a-year wedding industrial complex.”

Source: GQ
Published: Jul 22, 2020
Length: 26 minutes (6,538 words)

Where Will Everyone Go?

As temperatures and sea levels rise, populations flee from regions that are no longer livable, and the United States and other nations choose to build walls and keep migrants out, where will the world’s climate refugees go?

Source: ProPublica
Published: Jul 23, 2020
Length: 38 minutes (9,536 words)

Letter from Exile

“Finding home in a pandemic.”

Source: LitHub
Published: Jul 23, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,809 words)