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Julián Castro, Knight of the Republic

Here’s Julián Castro, squinting into the sun, awkwardly posed in front of what might be a Hampton Inn. It’s the morning of the 2020 Iowa…

Mar 2, 2020

Julián Castro, Knight of the Republic

Mar 2, 2020

I’ve Failed.

I’ve failed. I’ve failed and failed and failed. Every time I say it out loud, someone tries to wrestle the word away from me. I want them…

Jan 14

Jan 14

Israel has the right to defend itself. What about the Palestinians?

I wrote this for The Week in 2015, during another of the many rounds of attacks, incursions, and wars inflicted by Israel on the…

Jan 28, 2024

Jan 28, 2024

The egg.

The egg is the perfect shape, the perfect meal, the perfect self-contained safety measure, particularly (as my organic farmer friend once…

Jun 20, 2023

Jun 20, 2023

Go to bed.

It seems that one should know how to get into bed. Especially when the bed is an item of long-standing acquaintance, not some cantilevered…

Jun 20, 2023

Jun 20, 2023

Passover, Judaism, & the women who allowed us to become

As I often do in the days before Passover, I’m thinking of the women without whom we not only wouldn’t have the Passover story, we…

Mar 26, 2021

Mar 26, 2021

On Fandom, Heartbreak, and Joss Whedon

One night at the dinner table my kids asked which I like better: Star Wars or Star Trek. I demurred; they insisted; I insisted I couldn’t…

Feb 15, 2021

On Fandom, Heartbreak, and Joss Whedon

Feb 15, 2021

COVID-19 skepticism & my very special gang of trolls

On May 27th, when I’d been in isolation with mild COVID-19 for 71 days — a period during which I experienced constant low-grade fevers…

Jul 3, 2020

COVID-19 skepticism & my very special gang of trolls

Jul 3, 2020

Sympathy notes — how to write them, why they matter

America is reeling from its losses. Mourners aren’t able to find comfort in rites & rituals; we can’t hold those mourners in their grief…

May 24, 2020

Sympathy notes — how to write them, why they matter

May 24, 2020

Review: REUNIONS — Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

One day, five months into the presidency that threatens even now to undo the American experiment, I heard someone on the radio sing “there…

May 13, 2020

Review: REUNIONS — Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

May 13, 2020

Emily L. Hauser

Emily L. Hauser

Emily L. Hauser is a freelance writer & comms professional. @emilylhauser.bsky.social or emilylhauser@yahoo.com

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