Author: Natalia Antonova

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is as follows: we are in a new and so far very shitty period of history. Russians are bombing Ukraine, my native homeland, and making threats about...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is exhausting Whenever I write this on social media, a cadre of paid troll accounts and a few useful idiots inevitably show up to tell me what a bad person I am. In...

Someone I’m close to recently told me to “harden the fuck up.” In the internet communities I’ve been part of over the years, this would basically constitute a war crime. After all, I have...

No matter what anybody tells you, cancel culture is real — though it disproportionally affects more vulnerable people, as opposed to wealthy celebrities. I’ve felt its effects on my work efforts...

The writer Mikhail Bulgakov, a fellow native of Kyiv, called the year 1918 “great and terrible.” A little over a century later, 2021 was that kind of year for me — and for many of you too. From...

As the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch put it so well recently, forgetting about the concept of the public good is a major problem for us Americans — and it struck me that the ordeal of Robert...

Recently, a conservative Twitter account put a non-binary professor at Old Dominion University on blast. It would seem like a familiar story of conservatives trashing someone who is different......

I had to scrap my regular column today and start anew. Someone very close to me has just been diagnosed with Covid. They refused the vaccine even after my father tragically succumbed to the virus. As...

A long time ago, I had a charming friend who was very concerned with propriety. He only went to the right kind of dinner parties. He only liked the right kind of chatter underneath his Facebook...