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Essays and analyses by Rebecca Solnit
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We Were Made for This
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Published: August 31, 2025 21:48
Twenty years ago, on August 29, 2005, a huge hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. New Orleans's levees failed, as had been predicted, and much of the city went underwater. Although the authorities had issued a mandatory evacuation order, they had provided no…
Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-roses-notes-on-pleasure-and-scold-culture/
Published: August 28, 2025 00:17
[I have an epic piece coming up this weekend but wanted to expand this little post today into a mini-essay.]Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now…
On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter
Published: August 20, 2025 18:01
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality;
Stick With the Facts & Don't Be Like Them: Some Notes on a Spate of Recent Misreadings
Published: August 14, 2025 15:25
On July 31, the Washington Post ran a story noting that the National Museum of American History, a branch of the Smithsonian, took down a portion of an exhibit about presidential impeachment concerning Trump's two impeachments. The piece quoted an unnamed…
Resistance from Sea to Shining Sea
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Published: August 11, 2025 23:54
I've been traveling, which means being blessedly offline a lot more than usual, but I'm settled for a while, and there's so much to say. Before I say anything elaborate or essayistic, I just want to say THERE IS A LOT OF RESISTANCE GOING
THANK YOU SUPPORTERS! Today This Newsletter Is Six Months Old
Published: August 2, 2025 15:55
This is the forty-fifth post since I launched on February 2. It's been a wild ride and a lot of fun and quite thrilling to see so many of you join me (there are a bit over 30k subscribers now). To celebrate I dropped the – strictly optional
Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women
Published: July 30, 2025 16:44
On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep pockets. He's also accused in many civil suits of sexual…
In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025
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Published: July 21, 2025 21:12
I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some taller than me, birds move among the branches, many…