Passages

The disenchantment of baseball

Rule changes pull the veil from the sport’s high mysteries

Oct 2 • 

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September 2025

AI isn't biased enough

Without humanity’s flaws, chatbots lack its potential.

Sep 4 • 

Nick Burns

10

July 2025

The tyranny of the tinkerer

And other thoughts on the afterlife of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters

Jul 11 • 

Nick Burns

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June 2025

A farewell to Pike Street

From lower Manhattan to Virginia

Jun 16 • 

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March 2025

The Latin American part of Instagram Reels

Preliminary findings from a vital subdomain of the region’s cultural production

Mar 10 • 

Nick Burns

10

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February 2025

San Francisco, beautiful lie

Travel notes toward a Californian sociology

Feb 24 • 

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January 2025

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s DEI pink slip

From the Salem custom house to Trump’s Washington

Jan 30 • 

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Trump’s Napoleon phase

A different look at the Bonapartist analogy

Jan 20 • 

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Pola Oloixarac vs. progressive feminism

And other highlights from the new Americas Quarterly culture section

Jan 14 • 

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Californian decadence and eternity

Impressions on the half-life of culture and plenty in the Golden State

Jan 5 • 

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10

November 2024

Snakebit in the Bronx

What I saw, in spite of terrible hardships, at the Trump rally in May in Crotona Park

Nov 8, 2024 • 

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America’s Hegelian democracy

and its Freudian party system

Nov 4, 2024 • 

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