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We Are Those People: Power and Denial in Post-Democracy Washington, D.C.
In the future, when I remember this moment, this is what will remain: The family sleeping outside the empty station and the soldiers inside, searching…
 • Seth Lorinczi
Listening to Our Ancestors: A Conversation on Recognizing—and Releasing—Intergenerational Trauma
Ancestral trauma is everywhere: In hit shows, web searches, and everyday conversation. But how do we tell it apart from the everyday stresses of…
 • Seth Lorinczi
Who Makes the Nazis? Illusion, Reality, and the Election
Searching for my immigrant father’s story, I stumbled on the very moment his American dream took root. What I wonder now is: Did he really believe in…
 • Seth Lorinczi
My Mother's Mosquito
Nearly fifty years ago, my mother was killed by a mosquito bite. We could’ve made the world safer since then, but today a solution seems farther off…
 • Seth Lorinczi
The Lone Wolves: A Crisis of Manhood at the Oregon Coast
What drives young men to plot assassinations? Start by looking at the men raising them, and a culture that derides emotional connection—oh, and Jesus…
 • Seth Lorinczi
Dawn: Gaza, Jewishness, and the Price of Unmet Grief
For generations, my family denied our Jewishness. Now that I’m trying to come to terms with it, the question is: How? Sometimes, the answer is staring…
 • Seth Lorinczi
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