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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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?

Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

Arts & Culture

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

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?

Arts & Culture

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.

Rebecca Bodenheimer

Annexation Nation

What’s Behind the Pandemic Puzzle Craze?

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