Marci Shore and Volodymyr Rafeyenko for PS on Point: The Language of Ukrainian Resistance

Yale's Marci Shore discusses language, displacement, and being a refugee in one’s own country with Ukrainian novelist Volodymyr Rafeyenko. [View this message in a web browser]( [PS On Point]( JULY 1, 2022 The war in Ukraine has raised profound questions of political identity and its relationship to language. What happens to a novelist who writes in the same tongue as the invaders but no longer has anything to say to them? This week in On Point, Yale's Marci Shore interviews Ukrainian novelist Volodymyr Rafeyenko about the politics of language and literature, and the experience of being a refugee in one’s own country. [Read more](. On Point [Writing Off Russia]( Marci Shore interviews Volodymyr Rafeyenko According to the writer Adam Gopnik, "We breathe in our first language and swim in our second." But for many Russophone Ukrainians, the war against their country that Russia launched in 2014 and escalated in February has meant confronting the moral and political imperative of learning to breathe anew. [Read more]( [Subscribe to PS today.]( The Big Question [Is Crypto in Terminal Decline?]( [Is Crypto in Terminal Decline?]( with Dante Alighieri Disparte, Simon Johnson, Jim O’Neill, and Anne C. Sibert Some have long argued that private digital money and the technology underpinning it will revolutionize finance in the long term. But with Bitcoin plunging, stablecoins collapsing, and crypto lenders freezing withdrawals, we asked PS commentators whether the industry has a future. [Read more]( Say More [Antara Haldar on Partygate, the US Supreme Court, Homo Economicus, and more]( [Antara Haldar on Partygate, the US Supreme Court, Homo Economicus, and more]( [Antara Haldar]( highlights a potential institutional advantage of developing countries, shows how the hesitation to appeal to voters’ emotions is putting progressives at a disadvantage, and considers where the economics discipline is headed. Haldar is Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, Visiting Faculty at Harvard University, a former fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant on law and cognition. [Read more]( Previously in On Point [Is Stock-Market Short-Termism Really Behind Climate Change?]( [Is Stock-Market Short-Termism Really Behind Climate Change?]( By Mark Roe It has become uncontroversial to suggest that corporate executives are obsessed with immediate profits, often at the expense of their company's long-term value. But the claim lacks evidence, misdiagnoses the problem, and comes with high costs of its own. [Read more]( [Contributor book recommendations and more, only in the Read More newsletter. Sign up now.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.