American Insanity

social critique and satire of American culture

By Alta Ifland

American Insanity

An Interview about my new life in France

Chatting about books and Americans in France

Jun 21•Alta Ifland

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Voix de glace/Voice of ice

(bilingual poetic prose, Louis Guillaume Prize, Punctum Books, 2025)

Dec 17, 2025•Alta Ifland

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A discussion with Lionel Shriver about social manias

(including her latest novel, "Mania")

Sep 10, 2025•Alta Ifland

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How Does One Become Woke?

Apr 15, 2024•Alta Ifland

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My Experience with Equity at Oberlin College

Jun 25, 2024•Alta Ifland

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“Wrong” Bodies, Promethean Shame and the Impersonality of the Machine

Jul 15, 2024•Alta Ifland

Technology, the Myth of Progress (“Progressivism”) and Racism

May 13, 2024•Alta Ifland

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Book Bans and Literary Greatness

Published on Heterodoxy in the Stacks•Apr 7, 2025

American Identity, Geography, Marginality, Hollywood Misfits and Queerness

Dec 29, 2024•Alta Ifland

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TikTok, Water, Energy, the Romanian Elections, -ESCU, Putin and Trump

Dec 11, 2024•Alta Ifland

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Activella in vacation

Nov 21, 2024•Alta Ifland

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The Barbarian and the Techno-Progressive: a Dialectic

Aug 17, 2024•Alta Ifland

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The Olympics Controversy + a video on a book about wokeness

Jul 29, 2024•Alta Ifland