The Uncanny
The Uncanny is an attempt to look deeper at strange current events, ideas, and trends.
Héctor Vila
Writer & Teacher, Novelist, Essayist, & Cultural Critic, @hectorvila
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The 2024 Presidential Election has put me in a moral quandary. Why vote?
On the one hand, the choice is an aged narcissist and misogynist, indicted 4 times, including for racketeering, who is hellbent on ruining…
Agency: It’s Place & Value
In 2009 Raj Patel wrote words that have reappeared to me as if out of a thick fog: “The future will be shaped by our will to imagine a…
An Uncanny Confluence: The Talibanization of America — is it possible?
Could The Talibanization of America actually be possible? That is, a total shut down and repression of American life? What are the signs?
The Absurdity & Incongruity of War — Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan & Ukraine
“In my dreams, the war is silent,” writes Bushra Al-Maqtari in What Have You Left Behind? “No missiles, nor air raids, no murder, no…
The World on Fire: A Failure to Establish Ties
A close reading of the US Embassy, in Islamabad, Pakistan, document, which was handed to a young woman, a high school student from…
The U.S. State Department Aids The Taliban in Erasing All Hope for Afghanistan — Especially Women
In 2005, Middlebury College admitted our first Afghan student, a candidate from the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. The following year…
Finding Waldo
For 12 weeks, September to December, 2022, a total of 30 hrs, I taught in-person every Monday and Wednesday, 8:40 am to 9:55 am, in…
The Divided States of America: The Disillusion of Speech, Education & Culture
for my students, present and long inside the world of confusing animosity
Abortion and the Midwife
On a mild autumn day in Rosario, the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe, on the west bank of the Paraná River, on…
Why (I) Write
I’ve been writing and thinking about writing ever since middle school when a nun not much taller than I was in seventh grade pulled me…
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