Rebecca Bodenheimer

Rebecca Bodenheimer is a freelance writer and cultural critic whose work has been published by CNN, the LA Times, Vice, Foreign Policy, Inside Higher Ed, and many other outlets. She has a PhD in ethnomusicology and is the author of Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba. Her freelance writing can be found here and you can follow her on twitter @rmbodenheimer.

Politics & History

Annexation Nation

Since 1823, when the Monroe Doctrine was first introduced to the world, the US has regarded Cuba as key to its designs for Latin America.

Education & Society

What’s Behind the Pandemic Puzzle Craze?

Puzzles, or “dissected maps,” were invented in Georgian-era England, probably by a mapmaker named John Spilsbury in the early 1760s.

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Arts & Culture

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni in Conversation

In 1971, two legends of Black letters discussed Black manhood, white racism, the role of the writer, and the responsibility to teach.

Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Science & Technology

The Anatomists of Ancient Alexandria

Cultural forces under the Ptolemaic dynasty briefly allowed scholars like Herophilus to practice dissection—and possibly vivisection—on human subjects.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Politics & History

Wilhelm Reich: Twice Burned

A psychoanalyst and physician, Reich fled the Nazis only to be detained by the US as an “enemy alien” during World War II. And then came the sexual revolution.

Rebecca Bodenheimer

Annexation Nation

What’s Behind the Pandemic Puzzle Craze?

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