The Day After: November 9, 2016
After waiting for Hillary’s speech all morning, I finally gave up around 11 a.m. and came upstairs to work–it seemed like the only way to calm the sick-in-the stomach feeling. I found e-mails from friends in France and England, sending their condolences. No one has died, but it feels like a day of mourning. So…
Burquini Blues
September 5, 2016 It’s Labor Day, and the wind is shaking the branches outside my window–Hurricane Hermine making her presence known. At this end of summer, my thoughts turn to the crazinesses of the past few weeks–among which the “burquini debate” in France surely takes first prize. The Conseil d’Etat, France’s high court, recently declared…
A Fond Goodbye to “Aggieland”
When I arrived in Texas for a full-semester of residence as a Faculty Fellow at TIAS, the Texas A&M Institute for Advanced Study three months ago, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Like many Northerners, I had certain stereotypes of Texas in my head: men in ten-gallon hats, possibly sporting pistols in their belts, heavy…
Susan Rubin Suleiman 