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Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

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Supporting Soldiers Shouldn’t Sideline Disabled Civilians

Supporting Soldiers Shouldn’t Sideline Disabled Civilians

H.R. 9328 has coasted through Congress so far as one of the easiest votes placed before it during one of the most tumultuous periods in modern US...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

The Hidden Reconstruction Problem in Government and Military AI Systems

The Hidden Reconstruction Problem in Government and Military AI Systems

Long before ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini became public-facing products, governments were using artificial intelligence to search data, classify images,...

19.07.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Foreign Policy as Electoral Performance

Within several days, four stories moved through Washington, Muscat, New York, and the occupied West Bank. Each arrived under its own headline....

12.07.2026 40

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Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Collective Responsibility in Modern Practice

In a recent essay, I interrogated collective responsibility as one of those dangerously predictable historical mechanisms that keeps returning, not...

04.07.2026 60

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Kelsey Maurine Brickl

The Problem of Collective Responsibility

Mandy Patinkin said something imprecise, frightening, and partly true in The New York Times. Speaking of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, he argued...

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Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Where and What and When is Home?

I am originally from the suburbs of Chicago, and that place will always remain beloved and, fundamentally, home to me. But as my disabilities have...

14.06.2026 60

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‘Post-Jewish Property’ and The Problem of the Returning Neighbor

In postwar Polish files, the phrase mienie pożydowskie gave officials a name for property left after the destruction of Jewish life. “Post-Jewish...

07.06.2026 70

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Kelsey maurine brickl

The Camps After Liberation: Catastrophe Still Unfolding

When Allied soldiers entered the concentration camps in 1945, they did not find an ending. They found the catastrophe still unfolding. They found a...

25.05.2026 70

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Kelsey maurine brickl

The Sacred Memory of Maximilian Kolbe

Holocaust cinema repeatedly confronts a problem that is artistic, moral, and historiographical at once: the catastrophe exceeds ordinary narrative...

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The Dead Made Easier: The Narrative Laundering of the Holocaust

People do strange things to the dead when the dead become politically inconvenient. They soften them. They resize them. They strip away the details...

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Why the Third Reich Loved Paperwork

The Holocaust is often imagined through its most visibly horrific images: cattle cars, skeletal surviving prisoners on liberation photography and...

07.05.2026 80

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Kelsey maurine brickl

Weaponized Canines: Dogs in the Concentration Camp System

White slaveholding Americans were neither the first nor the last to exploit dogs for the purposes of persecution. One of the most notorious examples...

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Austria Says Camps Weren’t Residences. Section 58c Fails for the Same Reason.

Recently, the Republic of Austria explained to my family, in precise legal German, that a forced place of stay is not a residence. A person must have...

28.04.2026 50

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Kelsey maurine brickl