“But after Babel, nothing really means anything anymore––at least not in a way that is durable and on which people widely agree.”

"It’s shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid’s Tale from the shelves of the high-school library. I have been rendered “unacceptable.” "How dare I question the school board’s motives? I do dare. After all, it has questioned mine."

The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)

"Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Trump does not understand Zelensky because he does not recognize the concept of being bound by the law or the constitution while making decisions about your country.

The Trump-Putin Alaska summit went from what seemed to be an empty nothing-burger to a grotesque betrayal. @timmiller.bsky.social takes it on right here: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sha...

Believe it or not, one of the constraints on Trump's foreign policy is a "congressional manacle" partly crafted by Marco Rubio. Trump does not have unlimited power. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social‬ joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

Some CDC staff say that they have long feared the day that escalating animosity toward the agency would culminate in actual violence, @landmanspeaking.bsky.social reports:

"Either their long-term game is there won't be free elections or we'll fix the election or we'll steal it or gerrymander it, or they're perfectly prepared for someone who they disagree with to be able to use those same tools at some point in the future."

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy refused US President Trump’s suggestion to exchange parts of Ukraine’s land in return for peace Trump’s proposal, lacking details on which territories might be swapped and security guarantees, sparked outrage among Ukrainians euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/09/u...

"Every piece of technology can either make us more human or less human. It can liberate us from the mundane to unleash creativity and connection, or it can shackle us to mindless robotic drudgery of isolated meaninglessness"

For anyone interested in how the East Bloc’s intellectuals influenced Chinese public intellectuals, these recollections by one of China’s leading public thinkers, Cui Weiping, is absolutely important. She discusses her work with the recently departed Fu Guoyong and their work with Michnik and Havel

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

More than thirty years ago, Havel complained, “I cannot avoid the impression that many people in the West still understand little of what is actually at stake in our time.”

“The barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament.”

"Under conditions of terror most people will comply *but some people will not*"--Hannah Arendt. A unitarian minister friend sent me this clip from "The Avengers" as an illustration:

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”--Hannah Arendt

⚡️Maternity hospital in Odesa damaged in a Russian overnight attack, Mayor Trukhanov said. According to him, there are no casualties or injuries. 🎥 truonline/Telegram

"I did these things because I know I am mortal."

Remembering the legacy of Harvey Milk, the gay pioneer who tragically became a martyr

Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.~Bessel van der Kolk, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦

Is Central Europe a place—or a psychological condition? Between longing and self-doubt, this talk asks whether regional identity itself can become a form of existential struggle. youtu.be/T87KORF3NUY

"Europe is not a mother who owes something to her long-neglected children; neither is she a princess one has to court. [...] she is not a silk dress, nor the magic word ‘democracy’. Most likely, Europe is what we – countries, peoples, individuals – make of it for ourselves." Slavenka Drakulic

Thank you to Ilana Bet-El for the conversation about the meanings of historical time, and the experience of time rupturing.

In an effort to call attention to the ubiquitous, inherent connections between the psyche and the social, it brings together the past and present, the archetypal and the everyday. In the end, it reconfirms that personal is always political, and psychic distress and public struggles belong together.

This is why just handing over Ukrainian territory to Putin is not morally viable: it means handing over human beings to a reign of terror. Ukrainian soldiers are fighting so that Ukrainians are not tied to boards and tortured with electric shocks.

I love talking to Sarah Longwell www.thebulwark.com/p/nothing-is...

Please join us on Monday, April 28, 2025, 18:00 (CET) by zoom Register: forms.gle/UHjYpX3BWRYA...

“History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now [Jetztzeit].” Walter Benjamin “Illuminations”

And there is still more: We have launched our 2025 fundraising campaign, as we seek to publish one of Jung's major correspondences—spanning decades: The C. G. Jung-Jolande Jacobi Correspondence.

@marcishore.bsky.social "The Taste of ashes" "The eclipsing of private space was among totalitarianism’s deepest violations. In this way the totalitarian state was unlike its merely authoritarian or monarchical predecessors: it distinguished itself—it made itself—by caring what lovers said in bed."

Hey exciting news -- expanding our audiobooks collection once again with Sylvia Brinton Perera's classic, Descent to the Goddess! Also available: Swamplands of the Soul The Eden Project Under Saturn’s Shadow Addiction to Perfection The Call of Destiny Transformation of the God-Image

A classic by James Hollis: Swamplands of the Soul: Finding New Life in Dismal Places. Check out our Hollis collection at innercitybooks.net/bookshop/pro... Don't think of draining your swamp. It's pretty fertile soil, nurturing all kinds of unseen life, water and interdependent ecological webs.

Happy International Women's Day! Today we're reflecting on the strength and depth our authors have brought to the understanding of Jung's ideas & work. Starting, of course, with our Honorary Patron, Marie-Louise von Franz. Our blog lists some of our classics! innercitybooks.net/2015/10/15/w...

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

On the Shadow King: The Tyrant

James Hollis on the 'Triple A's': anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence.

This is not the age of information. This is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 the age of information. Forget the news, and the radio, and the blurred screen. This is the time of loaves and fishes. People are hungry, and one good word is bread for a thousand. — David Whyte, Loaves and Fishes from 'River Flow'

⚡️UNESCO adds Ukrainian egg decoration to intangible cultural heritage list. "The aggressor is destroying our culture, monuments, theaters, libraries, and museums. ... We, however, are proving that even in the darkest times, we remain unbroken," Culture Minister Mykola Tochytskyi said.

Ukrainian officials revealed systematic attempts to erase Ukraine's national identity by Russian invaders in occupied territories Since 2022, the Russians damaged over 2,100 Ukrainian cultural sites and destroyed 200 mln books

🔥 There is no confirmed date yet, but along with On Dreams and the East: Notes of the 1933 Berlin Seminar—C. G. Jung and Heinrich Zimmer, we are pleased to announce the other publication due in 2025: Jung’s Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffé.

Margaret Atwood on dread and joy of writing and editing process 📝 open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Szczeliny i kłącza pamięci. Praca z pamięcią kulturową, która porusza ją i ubogaca. #kultura #pamięć #wspominanie #upamiętnianie #tożsamość www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/1156...

This is how they cover up what abortion bans do — fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm. Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

It began with beaten students in Kyiv’s central square. It ended with a president fleeing the country and Ukraine forever changed. Euromaidan Press journalists reflect on the meaning of Euromaidan on its 11th anniversary:

"The self is a patchwork of the felt and the unfelt, of presences and absences, of navigable channels around the walled-off numbnesses. 1/2 Rebecca Solnit, from “Wound,” The Faraway Nearby (Penguin Books, 2013)