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Hermeneutical and Ethical Reflections on Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War
This essay explores what kind of language we speak when war engulfs us, when we are awakened by chaos and “the noise of Russian helicopters.”[1…
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What We Can Learn From Ukrainian Parrhēsia amid US Orwellianism
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Excerpts from Stanislav Aseyev’s Torture Camp on Paradise Street
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Recent Podcasts on Ukraine: Rethinking Russian Imperialism and Ukraine, War, Resistance: A Conversation at Yale
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If Ukraine Loses, the United States Loses
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Darya Tsymbalyuk on Russia's War in Ukraine and Learning to Listen to Multispecies Stories
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