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Leftism in Limbo

At first glance, it seems that the culture wars never really ended; they simply slipped out of public consciousness temporarily.

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Fresh Reflects

“I never change; I’m too stuck in my ways.” There is a hope that we forget that “corrupt but necessary” college admissions process once in college. This, of course, is hypocritical and hopeless, for who hasn’t heard that kid boast … Read More

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Ritardando

A reflection on a longstanding relationship with the violin–and how it has changed.

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Nathan Lang Eckstein

There is nothing original about my name: Nathan Lang Eckstein. The titles are borrowed, purloined from three contexts, two deceased, and bequeathed upon a blank slate demanding some context. My names are people, so let me introduce you.

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Teresa’s Pizzas

I rolled out of bed and into the shower to erase the stench of State Night that still lived on my skin and in my hair and in my blue jeans, which I had forgotten to take off before lying … Read More

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You’re Not OCD

You are eight years old, and your world is made of numbers. Your friends do not know.

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“Cabaret” at Theatre Intime

I’ve been wondering recently why the most popular cultural events on campus involve chants like “Yeah Disiac!” and “Yeah BodyHype!.”

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Interview with Phil Klay

The author of Redeployment and former member of the Marine Corps talks with the Nassau Weekly about war, narrative, and questions of empathy.

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Looking for Love in the Stacks

The distant summer I was a naive seventeen, I remember lobbying my then-boyfriend for a date-visit to a particular bookstore. He, a bibliophile, and I, a bibliophile, the proposition was ideal. We could hold hands and with our other hands rifle through select publications, pausing now and then to turn our looks of longing from the printed pages to each other.

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Dionysian Delight

Espionage becomes us. We traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts this weekend on a reconnaissance training mission to discover restaurants and entertainment venues that snarky Harvard students frequent. Posing as Mr. Black and Mrs. White – and alternately Vladimir Bolshoi Khoi and … Read More

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Thanksgiving

“We pass it every year, the way the parade passes. Then we arrive home with the last notes of the song, evidence against our staying power, our packaging, upon return, found intact.”

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Flightlessness and Being Mine: On Black-Jewish Non-Belonging At Princeton

“I have to sift the hate out of Judaism where I can, the hate I have for myself, the hate other people have for us, and the hate I identify in certain Jewish communities directed toward women or Palestinians or Black people.”

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