The Junction
Daniel LazarThe Junction of my passions: teaching and learning, history and politics, podcasting and parenting, creating and caring. Occasionally some spiritual mumbo jumbo.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 168 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Beyond Left and Right
Last week, Abdul Ballout, 21, drove a rented van into a crowd near the Christopher Street Day celebration in Berlin before continuing his assault with a knife, killing one and seriously injuring 31 others.
That same day, I got a message f...
Considering the Snail
What follows is a gently edited conversation I recorded with Joshua Weiner about Thom Gunn’s poem, Considering the Snail. You are cordially invited to read the transcript or listen to our conversation. You can listen here or wherever you ge...
Wet Hot Americana Summer
Every quarter, The Junction stops to take stock of new album releases (here are my picks for my faves of 2025 and from the first quarter of 2026). As I’ve disclaimed many times over: I have no itch to moonlight as a music critic. I just lik...
Flip the Script
Oh, dear reader. I warned you this could happen. After wondering aloud whether we are living in an Age of Resentment, I willfully slithered down the resentment rabbit hole.
My first fatal step was etymological. My second was Nietzsche. Fir...
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
This spring, I finally read David Blight’s Pulitzer-prize winning biography of Frederick Douglass, which gave me great hope as well as fresh context for Douglass’ extraordinary 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Just a...
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