Introduction Executive orders have gotten a lot of attention in the past ten months. They’ve covered everything from drilling in Alaska to the names of major landmarks to missile defense shields. News outlets of all kinds name themselves the prime sources for constant updates and seesaw between the president and the courts. The volume of […]
Archives for January 2026
All the Girls are Dying
This past summer, every bookstore in New York City seemed to have a copy of Sofia Coppola’s photobook, a visual collection of all of her directing projects. Simply titled Archive, its sixty-five-dollar price tag deterred me from making an impulsive purchase, but its hot pink cover was too striking to pass by without at […]
declaration
Whispers of greatness Recently, ever increasingly, in questions asked, open LinkedIn tabs, and an intangible, broad malaise—taut strings that come down from the sky, tangled, untraceable, thin white thread that puppeteers us to work ever harder, to go to HL for the tenth time this week, that snakes its way through our skin, slithering along […]
The Death of Stalin’s Comedic Portrayal of Strongmen
Like any comedy, The Death of Stalin is meant to make you laugh. It portrays the events shortly before and after Stalin’s death in 1953. It has humorous moments, such as Georgy Malenkov (the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin) waving from the Kremlin and trying to pose with a child too small for […]
C1914
How stand I, then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon […]