One day, Everyone will have always been against thisOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that

some of them no longer with us

Altenberg’s signature short prose straddles the line between the poetic and the prosaic

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and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state)

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and gratitude

What justifies foreign invasion

Twelve writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives

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