New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Lydia Polgreen
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I wrote about WIDOW'S BAY, where the past keeps coming at you even after you kill it with buckshot and fire [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...
My dispatch from Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
“You get Platner.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
Great read, by @soccerpolitics.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/o...
Last night’s incident was closer on the spectrum to the Clinton era “assassination attempt” when a guy opened fire on the White House with an AK-47 from the public sidewalk than it was to Butler, where the president was actually in danger.
It was just a Hail Mary at the first line of security.
Demise of a drunk-with-hubris hegemon: @polgreen.bsky.social at her best, on Trump’s colossal Iran blunder & its larger context, Athenian hubris distant-mirror, brilliant instruction from Hannah Arendt on power & violence. (No paywall—must read…)
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...
Here's a well-researched explainer about how he's very, very likely been lying about the tattoo. www.editorialboard.com/the-marine-c...
Trump doesn't understand what power is, and Iran has exposed his core weakness. My latest, with assists from Thucydides and Arendt. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...
The true queen of microlooting was actually Jessica Mitford, who apparently believed that if one ate an item in its entirety before arriving at the checkout one was under no obligation to pay for it.
