Privacy https://www.thesunmagazine.org/rss en-us Lesson Plan The Right and I agree on the potential of universities as a space in which students develop ideas that can transform the world. The difference is, they want to stamp it out, and I want to encourage it.

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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power.

Frederick Douglass

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/28950 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/604-sunbeams 604-49-weimer-preview.jpg 604 - Weimer - Sunbeams Tents On a solo backpacking trip, in a desert military base, at a church revival


]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/28698 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/590-tents 590-30-peck-preview.jpg 590-Peck-Tents Penumbra If Roe was created in the liminal space of the penumbra, Dobbs is the total eclipse that makes all go dark.

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

J.G. Ballard

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/28394 Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/sunbeams-issue-580 580-49-euba-preview.jpg 580-49-euba.jpg Last Bath It hasn’t happened yet: the awkward bloom / of my children’s bodies, the bathroom pin-lock / pushed in, the steady stream of marathon showers, / bolts of thick steam all shadowy blue.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24954 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 05:10:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24954-last-bath Privacy A coded diary, a box of letters, a closed bedroom door

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/28029 Thu, 31 Aug 2023 04:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/28029-privacy Invasion Of Privacy Three of the nine justices have publicly articulated their position that the Constitution does not contain a right to privacy — at least, when it comes to matters involving contraception. . . . And that’s just the three we know about.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27704 Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27704-invasion-of-privacy All In The Family Not every adopted adult needs the same thing, but I do think most adoptees, at some point in their lives, will want to look into their past. And someone in their birth family might come searching for them. With the Internet and readily available DNA tests, it’s not so easy to hide anymore.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24875 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 04:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24875-all-in-the-family A Thousand Words A new feature in the magazine, A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27460 Mon, 31 Jan 2022 05:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27460-a-thousand-words Invitation Maybe I write because I want visibility and invisibility, each on my own terms. I want you to accept these paragraphs as photographs from my mind, and I want these photographs to tell you something useful about me. Yet I don’t want you to see me.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24628 Thu, 23 Sep 2021 04:05:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24628-invitation When They Came To Us We went to sleep, and in the morning they were here. We saw them on our screens as they emerged from a grove of trees a hundred miles west of us. Their ship had crashed. It was made of a rose-gold metal and looked like a claw with a broken tip. Within hours the government had moved these beings — the “blues,” we eventually came to call them — to a holding station outside the nearest city. There we could watch them whenever we wanted, because of the cameras in each room.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23768 Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:42:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23768-when-they-came-to-us Become A Friend Of <em>The Sun</em> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25440 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:42:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25440-become-a-friend-of-em-the-sun-em Doors A fire drill, an ancient site, a magical opening

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23809 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:50:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23809-doors The Laughter Club It’s not surprising that trauma is the number-one killer of people under forty, but it had never been so obvious to me before I worked at a hospital.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23781 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23781-the-laughter-club Being Alone Running away, getting married, eating at the food court

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24125 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24125-being-alone My Sister, The Writer My sister is a writer. She writes terrible things about me. She thinks she is telling the family secrets, but we all think she’s hysterical.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22804 Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22804-my-sister-the-writer Eavesdropping Brothers, no-kidding eyes, bean holes

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22155 Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22155-eavesdropping Autobiography Of An Icon http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24353 Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:10:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24353-autobiography-of-an-icon For The Man Upstairs Without hesitating, I carried the pie out into the hallway, and climbed the flight of stairs to the third floor, where I knocked boldly on the man’s door. Not a sound from inside. I breathed deeply; the air seemed thinner up here. While I waited, I examined the way the purple syrup had bubbled over the browned pastry. After a minute I set the pie down before the threshold and turned to leave.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23819 Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23819-for-the-man-upstairs We Take The New Young Couple Out To Dinner http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26507 Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26507-we-take-the-new-young-couple-out-to-dinner Denial How old is the habit of denial? We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know. The public was told that old Dresden was bombed to destroy strategic railway lines. There were no railway lines in that part of the city. But it would be years before that story came to the surface.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23269 Sat, 01 Oct 1994 00:05:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23269-denial The God Of My Childhood Killing God; discovering orgasms; feeling connected by a giant, invisible web linking all things

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/28114 Mon, 01 Jul 1991 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/28114-the-god-of-my-childhood A Few Lessons They Won’t Forget While teaching means different things in different places, seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum you pay for in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what it is. I intend no irony here. These are the things I teach, these are the things you pay me to teach.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24052 Wed, 01 May 1991 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24052-a-few-lessons-they-won-t-forget Refuge Having a room of one’s own, eating compulsively, scribbling

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25923 Sat, 01 Sep 1990 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25923-refuge The Ethics Of Photography It’s hard not to see that a photograph is an act of aggression, no matter who is taking it. You’re stopping people from the flow of their lives, you’re cropping them from the space in which they live and have their being, you’re juxtaposing them with something that they didn’t know they were next to.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24388 Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24388-the-ethics-of-photography Secrets A lemon meringue pie, a little model of a dinosaur, a 31-inch Hillerich & Bradsby baseball bat

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24043 Tue, 01 Sep 1987 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24043-secrets Exile http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27291 Thu, 01 Jan 1987 01:18:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27291-exile Home Again http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/21949 Tue, 01 May 1984 18:18:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/21949-home-again Journal The two big trees fascinate me. . . . I watch the very tiptops of those trees and wonder if I can poise my consciousness in those leaves at the top long enough to BE there. I try.

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