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Photograph by David X Prutting / BFA / REX / Shutterstock Ryuichi Sakamoto, “async” In 2014, the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer. He survived and, last year, released “async,” a spare, meditative album that evokes, with…

Neoconning the Trump White House

Over the last year critics have warned of the returning neoconservative influence on the executive branch’s national security apparatus, each day a little less confident that  President Donald Trump will keep to the seeming anti-interventionist impulses he  demonstrated during the…

Russia, America, and the Courage to Converse

Amidst the firestorm of U.S.-Russia recriminations and closings of diplomatic facilities this past September, and on the heels of an intense, year-long American campaign to demonize all things Russian, a project calling itself the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy…