Katya Sedgwick

Oakland

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Articles

We Don’t Really Care, Margaret

2 months ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Katya Sedgwick

It was pure delight to watch our brilliant young Vice President J. D. Vance tackle CBS’s Face the Nation scold Margaret Brennan in a recent interview. Brennan believed she had the facts to back up her assertions when she started a conversation on refugee admissions, but soon discovered otherwise.
Note to RedNoters: You’re Being Conned

Jan 23, 2025 | rlo.acton.org | Katya Sedgwick

TikTok was developed as a Chinese-government digital product marketed to Western youth and operated under a secretive algorithm. It promoted anti-American narratives—from lavishing praise on Osama bin Laden to pushing transgender hype—but its chief purpose was probably data-mining. After the Supreme Court approved its ban, the app went dark, and some “TikTok refugees” switched to its sister company RedNote—both owned by the Chinese conglomerate ByteDance.
Dylan Rebels- A Review of A Complete Unknown

Jan 14, 2025 | everymancommentary.substack.com | Katya Sedgwick

Bob Dylan’s timing—not his musical timing but his social timing—has a knack for being either completely off or uncanny in its clairvoyance. The new biopic covering his life, A Complete Unknown, beginning with the young poet looking for Woody Guthrie in New York and ending with Dylan’s scandalous triumph over the folkies at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, is like that, too. He could be very wrong or perfectly placed—but he is always singular.
The Pardon America Needs

Dec 9, 2024 | chroniclesmagazine.org | Katya Sedgwick

After Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, many Americans expressed the hope that Donald Trump will now have cover to pardon this country’s political prisoners. The incoming president already indicated that he will make a “case-by-case basis” review of the Jan. 6 protesters a priority for his administration and there is reason to hope he will simply pardon them all now.
Time for Feminism to Take Inventory of its Failing Prescriptions

Nov 25, 2024 | chroniclesmagazine.org | Katya Sedgwick

Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 election should prompt a reckoning on the left. Everything progressives proposed deserves to be scrutinized—their economic agenda, foreign policy failures, and the racial animosity painstakingly nurtured since the Obama presidency. Another ideology long overdue for a thorough inventory is feminism. It’s not just that Democrats misjudged what was important to American women.
California’s Native Daughter Underwhelms

Nov 14, 2024 | chroniclesmagazine.org | Katya Sedgwick

Shortly before Nov. 5 election, The Los Angeles Times predicted Californians would turn out to vote for native daughter Kamala Harris in record numbers. My state’s most reputable paper speculated that we would deliver a Harris tsunami because voting here is “easy.” In the context of California and the vice president, perhaps “loose” is a better word—my mother, for instance, received two mail-in ballots.
Importing Ancient Hatreds Undermines Liberty

Oct 17, 2024 | chroniclesmagazine.org | Katya Sedgwick

Much has been written on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. Most of it is focused on Israel—as it should be in their moment of national trauma and resilience. I’m not able to offer any original insights on the land of Zion, but, as a Jewish American and an immigrant, I have some thoughts on the Jewish future stateside. Jews first settled the territory of the contemporary American Southwest, crossing the Rio Grande from what is now Mexico, during colonial times.
The Self-Sabotage of Abortion ‘Rights’ Absolutists

Sep 19, 2024 | chroniclesmagazine.org | Katya Sedgwick

Despite identifying abortion as an important issue, most suburban white women have little if any experience with it and, provided that no seismic socio-political changes take place in the U.S., can reasonably expect that their daughters will never undergo the procedure either.
Big Soft Daddy Walz

Sep 2, 2024 | chroniclesmagazine.org | Katya Sedgwick

The Democratic National Convention put forward a non-traditional, soft version of American masculinity. In place of svelte musculature and stoic bearing it elevated to a place of honor dad bods the Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff together with vice-presidential candidate, Tim Walz.
The Russian Lit Plot Twist of Today’s American Politics

Aug 26, 2024 | chroniclesmagazine.org | Katya Sedgwick

When Russian literature becomes necessary to explain democratic elections in the West, something has gone very, very wrong. As John Adams said, the American republic was designed for moral and religious people. So, when unambiguous machinations at the highest level and inverted psychology of the masses emerge as the dominant themes of public life, we should be afraid.