Mulder, unwilling to accept this sad ending, asks, “Where’s the writer? I want to speak to the writer.”
Oppenheimer ends by asserting: “This is the way the world is now.” Barbie asks the audience: “But does it have to be that way?”
“I call myself a public historian or a fashion historian, because most people know what that means. But in my head I’m a dress historian, because not all dress is fashion.”
“Oppenheimer and Schrödinger’s deep interest in millennia-old Indian literature and philosophy was not just curious eccentricity on their parts. These unexpected intellectual endeavors helped them make sense of observable puzzles and ethical quandaries at the frontiers of science.”
“It’s really no wonder that Star Wars fandom is so generationally-biased: the current cuts of the films streaming in 4K on Disney+ are not the films that fans saw in cinemas on opening day.”
Nishant Batsha is a writer of fiction and history, and the author of the novel Mother Ocean Father Nation. Here’s how he does history.
“On the day I left Kyiv to go to Warsaw, my landlord gave me a big hug and stuffed a bag of chocolates into my luggage.”
“Honestly, what the hell? Why did a collection of bigoted lies and conspiracy theories suddenly catch fire in a discipline that prides itself on cool logic and objective impartiality? Is there something about philosophy that makes it particularly hostile to trans people?”
