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In a new essay in the Washington Monthly, Dr. Gail Christopher shares this account of America’s grieving and mourning from Trump’s return to power:

One of the most enjoyable is “David Lynch - The Elusive Subconscious,” a 20-minute video essay by Lewis Bond that both distills the concept through narration and shows it in practice.

"Is it like the old Playboy magazine, you have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?"

I could never write essays, and I'm like, "16,000 words? It's bizarre."

James Baldwin spoke to these feelings in his 1965 essay “White Man’s Guilt”: