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The map is not the territory. It’s a tool for learning the territory: orientation. Recently I’ve revived a favorite off-grid pastime of mine, exploring the terrain of my neighborhood, in search of trails and other possible corridors linking forest, waterfront, and other wild places. For an extended hike, the challenge…
Rewriting the Covid Narrative by Nowick Gray This month marks the release of two new books offering fresh takes on the whole traumatic Covid catastrophe. In subverting the dominant narrative, both books enlist the force of creative truth-telling and demonstrate the undeniable power of the human heart. Both also supply…
Narrative Sabotage by Nowick Gray It seemed, for a moment there, as though we might have reason to celebrate. The End of Mandates! was announced by government officials everywhere, even as the medical freedom movement was criminalized and hauled off in chains, and draconian legislation was being embedded in bureaucratic…
In Part 1 of Rome vs. the Barbarians, I introduce Thomas Mann’s little-known political essays from World War I Germany (Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man), painting the perennial battle not so much between West and East, or democracy and autocracy, but between progress and tradition, the future and the past,…
