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Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Jeffrey Wasserstrom  is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine and the author, most recently, of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink.

Four Masks and a Funeral

Four Masks and a Funeral

On the loss of freedoms in Hong Kong

by Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Saturday, April 10, 2021
“Never Was History So Interesting”

“Never Was History So Interesting”

Reading, Writing, and Confinement in 1900

by Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Saturday, July 25, 2020
The Spirit of May 35th

The Spirit of May 35th

A tale of dissidence, exile, astrophysics, and puckish wit

by Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Monday, February 29, 2016

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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Plunging to Earth

by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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