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“If the work of any single director periodizes the end of New Romanian Cinema, it’s the chimeric filmography of Radu Jude.” Now unpaywalled: Alan Dean on the great Romanian auteur. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/rev...

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In a just world, the Trump/Musk coup would receive the wall-to-wall coverage granted to James Comey’s firing or, for that matter, Hillary Clinton’s emails. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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The hallmark of totalitarianism at this stage isn’t genocide or extremes of violence. It is doubled or twofold organization. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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"In this moment, Trump appears not as the destroyer, but the tempter. Tempting reasonable people to keep trying to be reasonable and do it to themselves. Coordinate themselves. Go along, seemingly to keep circumstances normal, which are, really, aberrant." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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In today’s newsletter: a note from n+1 coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social about our contributor Thomas Bolt, who died last month at age 65.

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Immigrants are the scapegoats whom Trump has chosen for roundups, but the business of rounding-up is itself an all-purpose tool in the assault on law. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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"There is everything to be gained from every refusal, from plain unwillingness to fall into line." Brilliant Mark Greif assessment of the assault on the bureaucracy. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of accommodation.” New: Mark Greif on the war against the bureaucracy. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Issue One is live! You can hear the whole thing on our website and wherever you listen to podcasts. signalhill.fm

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"Great writers do all the reading. [If][ you want to get to the bottom of something, you have to dig your hands through the shit.... With Netflix, doing the reading, or doing the watching, carries an added layer of significance because the company makes movies that are designed to not be watched."

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"And if airplanes fall out of the sky, we’ll blame Black pilots." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Wholeheartedly agree! "Casual Viewing" in @nplusonemag.com was revelatory, and @tavlin.bsky.social is illuminating here in his explanation for why the piece packs the punch it does.

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In today’s newsletter, @tavlin.bsky.social discusses his Issue 49 essay about Netflix’s assault on cinema. Read the whole interview here: mailchi.mp/nplusonemag/...

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“Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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n+1 is seeking an editorial fellow! This part-time position will offer an early-career editor a wide-ranging introduction to the editorial and operational work of a small magazine. Apply by March 5: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“All of the characters in Airless Spaces are set on a slow but inevitable downward trajectory. Shulamith Firestone’s goal as a writer is to show us exactly how they got there.” New: Chris Kraus on AIRLESS SPACES, out next week from @SemiotextePress. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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again, @markkrotov.bsky.social perfectly nails the moment

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“Even at the nadir of his first presidency, during the bleach-addled Covid months, US policy was guided by more than Trump’s whims,” writes n+1 coeditor @markkrotov.bsky.social. “This time around, whim is law.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“Sometimes when things go wrong, cinema creeps in to show up the paucity of an overarching plan.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“The pronounced sense of emergency that defined the first term feels almost entirely absent in the midst of an actual emergency.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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ICYMI: I was walking down the street today when I saw a weed-flower break through the pavement. And I think that’s a beautiful metaphor for the times. We must locate emerging possibilities within the harsh constraints of material realities. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“Democratic leadership proceeds as if this insanity reflects some kind of popular uprising, as if it serves a real constituency and not a few billionaires and their fanatical little helpers.“

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A few thoughts about DOGE, DEI, COBOL, and some other acronyms and tendencies. Thanks as always to Lisa Borst. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“Trump is older, slower, diminished, while Musk works nights and weekends to bring about the end of civil society.” New: @markkrotov.bsky.social on DOGE and the first month of Trump. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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New: n+1 is hiring for a part-time editorial fellow. Find more details and apply here: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm.” Stunning and chilling piece from Paisley, who knows this law better than anyone

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You’ll want to read this wonderfully comprehensive piece from @paisleycurrah.com. Really.

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New online: Matthew Porges on “a crop of newish spy novelists whose claims to readerly attention hinge on their past espionage careers, far more explicitly than in the past.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“This paratextual gambit allow McCloskey to have his cake but also keep it safely ensconced in the embassy’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.” New: Matthew Porges surveys recent spy fiction. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“…the very nature of the debate has shifted. “Before, we challenged anti-trans policies based on…state interest…attacking transgender people directly means we now have to have debate whether or not it is OK to prevent people from being transgender.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Nothing says “I love you” like a gift subscription to n+1! shop.nplusonemag.com/products/gif...

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The indispensable Paisley Currah. I only wish he didn't have to say it. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Luis Feliz Leon: Labor must "overcome 2 sinister, mutually reinforcing dynamics now at play: opportunistic collaboration with Trumpism along narrow sectoral lines & the embrace of an 'America First' nationalist agenda targeting immigrant workers." Choose b/w deeper unity or shortsighted conciliation

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“The Trump administration’s sweeping attacks on transgender rights demonstrate the stark reality of what the state can do, rational or not, when driven by animus,” writes @paisleycurrah.com. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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"The speed and thoroughness of Trump’s anti-transgender initiatives, bearing on virtually every aspect of transgender people’s lives, has been both relentless and heartbreaking." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/... #transrights

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Please read/share Paisley Currah's comprehensive analysis of the recent anti-trans executive orders in the US. “These policies work together to push transgender people out of workplaces, schools, health care and daily life—deliberately making it impossible to function in society"

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good piece by @paisleycurrah.com: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Trump's EO's, as Paisley points out, mark a rhetorical shift from "technocratic" anti-transness to "full-throated, explicit" transphobia.

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My piece on Trump's executive orders targeting trans people is out now at N+1. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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"The new directives are sweeping, comprehensive, and terrifyingly creative in their multi-front assaults."

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“For transgender people, facing a hostile state bent dismantling the delicate and still incomplete scaffolding of transgender rights, the situation is dire.” New: Paisley Currah on the Trump administration’s anti-trans assaults. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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No matter what happens in Super Bowl LIX, either Brady, Mahomes, or the Philadelphia Eagles will have won nine of the last eleven Super Bowls. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“Fans feel like they have been seeing the same teams in the Super Bowl over and over, because they have been seeing the same teams in the Super Bowl over and over.” New: a Super Bowl preview by Stephen Squibb. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Next Thursday! Celebrate Issue 49 with n+1 and our contributors. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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