What Communities Shall We Imagine to Get Us Past America?

Jan Clausen calls on U.S. writers to reject nationalism

Mar 11, 2026

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We writers had better imagine our preferred communities with care: if we are successful, a lot of future people will wind up living in the containers we invent…What communities shall we imagine to get us past America?

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A guest post by

Jan Clausen

Jan Clausen recently completed a new memoir entitled My Great Acceleration. It investigates her personal connection to U.S. empire's environmental and geopolitical crimes. An excerpt is forthcoming in Massachusetts Review.