Elizabeth Svoboda
Journalist at Freelance
Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? (@PenguinRandom) and THE LIFE HEROIC (@ZestBooks). Words @washingtonpost, @nytimes, @atlasobscura, @sciam, @sapiens_org, etc.
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1 month ago |
greatergood.berkeley.edu | Elizabeth Svoboda
After making a gesture that many interpreted as a Nazi salute, Elon Musk rejected the idea that he himself was a Nazi, or that any invocation of the movement’s symbols could be harmful. “What’s relevant about Nazis is like, are you invading Poland?” Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan. “What is actually bad about Nazis—it wasn’t their fashion or their mannerisms, it was the war and genocide.” But what Musk failed to acknowledge was that genocide never arrives as a bolt from the blue.
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1 month ago |
nuclear-news.net | Elizabeth Svoboda |Christina MacPherson
Book Review: How Our Digital Infatuation Undermines Discourse In “Superbloom,” Nicholas Carr laments that we live in a state of uncontrollable sensory and communication overload. By Elizabeth Svoboda, 03.14.2025, https://undark.org/2025/03/14/book-review-superbloom/?utm_source=Undark%3A+News+%26+Updates&utm_campaign=ecc4df9cbe-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5cee408d66-185e4e09de-176033209It was all Mother Nature’s fault, you could say.
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1 month ago |
undark.org | Elizabeth Svoboda
It was all Mother Nature’s fault, you could say. After winter rains in Lake Elsinore, California, reawakened countless dormant poppy seeds in early 2019, spring blossoms crowded in thickly enough to turn the hillsides bright orange — a fleeting “superbloom.” Recognizing an Instagrammable backdrop when she saw one, influencer Jaci Marie Smith reclined across the floral carpet in orange overalls and hit post. “You’ll never influence the world by trying to be like it,” her photo caption read.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | Elizabeth Svoboda
Donald Trump’s second presidential term seems to have elevated internal US discord — already at nosebleed heights — to a new peak. Americans are no longer even able to agree on basic facts, making it harder than ever to imagine that we can muster what it takes to solve complex problems like climate change and income inequality.
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2 months ago |
qoshe.com | Elizabeth Svoboda
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Honored to be on this year's @litquake roster for the first time. Come out and see me and other @sfgrotto writers from 5-6 on Oct. 26 at Teeth Bar SF, 2320 Mission St. All of us will be sharing "Words to Save the World." https://t.co/GjhgkwZ0rB
Witnesses say coaches at San Diego's Champion Gymnastics abused young students while many adult observers—immersed in the twisted gym culture—ignored or excused what was happening. Democracy and justice die in darkness, and stories like this are beacons. https://t.co/wCAOgPXTOJ
Commentators now warn of approaching fascism in the U.S., but I argue in the @BostonGlobe that today's right-wing leaders, including Donald Trump, aren't really fascists. They're Caesarists, a species of autocrat historians have described for decades. https://t.co/T0wzsbyGGw
