Linda Kinstler
Person on 4 sites
Linda Kinstler is a writer, a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where she covers ideas.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Current roles: Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; contributing writer, The New York Times Magazine; non-resident fellow, Kennan Institute (opens wiqqi.app)
- Book: Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends (2022); 2023 Whiting Award in Nonfiction, shortlisted for the Wingate Prize (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: PhD in rhetoric, UC Berkeley (August 2023); studied at Cambridge and Goldsmiths as a Marshall Scholar (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Losing belief in an open future risks abdicating the power to take part in democratic politics. (opens korrents.com)
“When we stop believing in an open future--or even that there will be a future at all--we risk abdicating the power to participate in democratic politics.”
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Most wars now end in ceasefires rather than peace deals, which means they do not end at all. (opens korrents.com)
“Most wars now end with ceasefires rather than peace deals, which is to say they do not end at all.”
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The debate over the meaning of genocide calls for rethinking how moral responsibility for the worst crimes is assigned. (opens korrents.com)
“The debate over the meaning of “genocide” is an occasion for us to reappraise the legal architecture & the history that we have inherited & to rethink how moral responsibility for the worst categories of crimes should…”
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Losing belief in an open future risks abdicating the power to take part in democratic politics. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Divided City (opens rcmnd.app)
“The first book I would recommend is it's called The Divided City by Nicole Loraux um who was a kind of French scholar to gorgeous writer and it's this book that talks about the inherent division of politics and how you…”
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Crossing the Red Line (opens rcmnd.app)
“It's called Crossing the Red Line um by Akbar Shahid Ahmed which is about the Biden administration's uh shifts in policy towards Gaza and precisely how that played out and you know, I was just reading it on the train…”
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The Divided City (opens rcmnd.app)