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Guest Commentator

Erika Schelby

BC Guest Commentator Erika Schelby is the author of Looking for Humboldt and Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond (Lava Gate Press, 2017) and Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future? (Lava Gate Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for the International Essay Prize Contest by the Berlin-based cultural magazine Lettre International. Schelby lives in New Mexico.

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Guest Commentary

Blaming ‘Evil’ Putin Misses Chance for a Lasting Peace

By Erika Schelby Guest Commentator

Pointing fingers won’t help—an attitude shift is what the world needs now.

The old long war in Afghanistan has barely ended and already there is a new one, this time in Europe. Most governments, the media, and the…

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