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Articles by John Scagliotti
Pick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance
The line from defeat in Afghanistan to deputizing bounty hunters in Texas can be traced in blood—and history. By John Scagliotti and JoAnn Wypijewski September 22, 2021 fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark September 22, 2021 Students outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 2011, hold the front page of The Washington Post following the news of Osama bin Laden’s death.
Postcards From Restaurant-Land
Labor and loneliness one year later. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark March 15, 2021 (Jason Kotoch) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Join the Books & the Arts Newsletter Enter your email to get the best of The Nation’s Books & the Arts section in your inbox biweekly. You will receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Thank you for signing up.
Trump Made His ‘American Carnage’ Fever Dream True
In the US, 500,000 people are dead, but the toll is higher and Covid is but one measure of public health. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark March 3, 2021 (Julian Leshay / Shutterstock) Oakland, Calif.—On January 20, 2017, in a chilling inaugural address, Donald Trump declared, “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” As white supremacists stormed the Capitol on January 6, it struck me that the exact opposite had transpired during his term as president.
Finding Community Through Our Dogs in the Darkest Days of the Pandemic
A dog story, in which humans paw their way from isolation to something like community. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark February 24, 2021 (Photo by Angela Ards) Newton, Mass.—During lockdown last March, one of the few approved excuses for being outside was to walk your dog. In Newton, a suburb outside of Boston, stir-crazy folks with the requisite pet in tow began congregating, six feet apart, at Braceland, one of our local parks.
Sniffing Our Way Back Home
Everyone is cautious; the trails are empty; drag queens are forced to perform outdoors. But eventually we will get close again—and bring history another step forward. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark December 30, 2020 Sister Act 3, pre-Covid edition.
To Restore American Leadership, the Biden Administration Should Focus on Global Hunger
President-elect Joe Biden. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter.
The Gentrification of Queerness
Christopher Street was once a haven for queer people of color. Its transformation into an outpost of white, upper-middle class respectability tells a larger story of exclusion. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark A street sign in New York City’s West Village points the way to Christopher Street. Christopher Street in Manhattan’s West Village used to buzz with noise.
What Happened to the Radical Spirit of the Stonewall Rebels?
The movement for LGBTQ rights has been domesticated, its goals refocused on marriage and family. It can be so much more. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark June 30, 2019 A flag is waved in front of Stonewall Inn during the Pride parade in New York City in 2016.
The Enduring Harm of the West’s Moral Crusades
On Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, the US should reconsider its global war against sex work. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark June 28, 2019 Supporters and members of the LGBT community participate in a queer pride parade in Ahmadabad, India, on February 24, 2019. (AP / Ajit Solanki) In 1982, as a young undergraduate, I fled from my Delhi college to Tufts University, desperately hoping that in the liberal West my self-loathing and terrors about being gay would fade into irrelevance.
In Praise of Identity Politics and the Long History of Desire
Fifty years after Stonewall, identity politics remains our means to exert power collectively, and a starting point to freedom. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms LGBT rights advocates march on Washington in 2009 (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) A few years before the Stonewall Riots, I became a gay-history buff. I wasn’t driven to uncover hidden troves for the world. Nice thought, but no. I had sex on my salacious young mind.
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