The Bupkes

Contributor's contribution: OC OG OK?

An excerpt of a poetry sequence about a fictional reboot of the old teen soap opera.

Jan 6

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The week in ConWatch: Regrettably, it's Complicated

If only the real world were as simple as the Teutonic Imaginary's.

Jan 4 • Noach Głuchowicz

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December 2025

Contributor's contribution: The fate of nations, the importance of record

Westphalia. Waterloo. And now? Man frage nicht: Don't ask.

Dec 29, 2025

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In the "garden" of Brussels: Talk about bupkes! w/Shada Islam

Watch now | In an era of unmasked double standards, the EU insider often on the outside talks about holding Europe to account for the "way of life" it…

Dec 22, 2025 • Noach Głuchowicz and Shada Islam

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REPOST: A Bupkes Chanukah story

When terrorist zealots attack pluralist secularism, we celebrate with socks.

Dec 14, 2025

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A Font of Greatness

If diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell, choose your typeface wisely.

Dec 11, 2025 • Noach Głuchowicz

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Deep State Nine: A Shlep to the Far Side of European Politics

How superior is Western civilization? Only the world's most vulnerable could take it down.

Dec 6, 2025 • Noach Głuchowicz

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Whose Yiddish is it anyway? “Talk about bupkes!” w/Saul Noam Zaritt

Listen now | Speaking Jewish is a lot more complicated than it seems.

Dec 1, 2025 • Noach Głuchowicz

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November 2025

Contributor's contribution: Magazine meanings, sweatshirt sentiments

Try outrunning your decisions on the objects you display. Go on. We dare you.

Nov 29, 2025

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The week in ConWatch

A brief message from our sponsor, Hannah Arendt.

Nov 21, 2025

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Community notice: Cheney shiva call details

Temple Congregation Shalom Shpilkes mourns the loss of someone whose death confirms he was, to our surprise, a person.

Nov 5, 2025 • Noach Głuchowicz

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October 2025

Contributor's contribution: In the Betjeman Arms

From pre-pandemic times: a poem that ponders the preponderance of processing power — and power-outs

Oct 31, 2025

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