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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite
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In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual
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‘Wonderful and Vicious Things’ | Sanjay Kak
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In February 2023 the photographer Sohrab Hura mounted an unusual show on the upper floor of a gutted factory on the smoky margins of New Delhi. Although
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The Suffocation of Democracy | Christopher R. Browning
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Whatever secret reservations Mitch McConnell and other traditional Republican leaders have about Trump’s character, governing style, and possible criminality, they openly rejoice in the payoff they have received from their alliance with him and his base: huge tax cuts for the wealthy, financial...
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Look Who’s Talking | Ian Tattersall
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When did our first linguistic ancestor emerge, and how did the transition from a nonlinguistic to a linguistic state take place?
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Hitler’s Enablers | Christopher R. Browning
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The complicity of conservative nationalists in the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 offers disturbing parallels to the current American political situation.
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When I first spoke to David about the day US government agents took his son Arbi from him, the presidential elections felt a long way off. It was 2022
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Centers on the Margins | R.J.W. Evans
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The dark history of Buczacz, an ordinary town in western Ukraine, exemplifies the fate of Jews in the vast marginal territories of East-Central Europe.
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The Task of the Journalist | Wesley Lowery
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In the days since the election, I’ve found myself revisiting an essay on the journalist’s role in a free society by the Reverend Levi Jenkins Coppin,
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As You Like It | Gabriel Winslow-Yost
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Sam Barlow’s video games may be the first efforts at interactive cinema—by either a game designer or a filmmaker—that work.
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The ICC: Myths and Realities | James A. Goldston and Aryeh Neier
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On November 21, when three International Criminal Court judges issued arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, the decision drew a frenzy of
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Livelier Than the Living | Catherine Nicholson
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In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.
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Tangled Justice | John J. Lennon
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A new book examines the complex relationship between forgiveness and justice through the story of Paula Cooper, who was sentenced to death at the age of sixteen.
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Gender-Affirming Care & the Courts | David Cole
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The Supreme Court will rule this term on whether a Tennessee law denying minors treatment for gender dysphoria discriminates on the basis of sex.
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Reports from the Slaughterhouse | Martha C. Nussbaum
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A century after Upton Sinclair exposed the inhumane and unhygienic conditions of Chicago’s stockyards, life for animals in America's factory farms and slaughterhouses is still gruesome.
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The Midnight World | Michael Chabon
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Glenn Fleishman’s history of the comic strip as a technological artifact vividly restores the world of newspaper printing—gamboge, Zip-A-Tone, flongs, and all.
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Israel’s Revenge: An Interview with Rashid Khalidi | Rashid Khalidi
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The scholar of Palestinian history talks about what has and has not surprised him about the world‘s response to Israel‘s assault on Gaza.
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The Return of Trump—VII | Dahlia Krutkovich, Omer Bartov, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Joshua Craze
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Dahlia Krutkovich • Omer Bartov • Catherine Coleman Flowers • Joshua Craze Dahlia Krutkovich Bad-faith accusations of antisemitism on American campuses
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‘Acts of Submission’ | Walter M. Shaub Jr.
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Dear Hon. David Huitema (David), Congratulations on being confirmed to serve as director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE). Thank you for accepting
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Richard Powers’s new novel, Playground, features an artificial intelligence resembling the new generation of “large language models,” like ChatGPT and
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The eighteenth century was a century of great letter writers, and Voltaire was the greatest of them all. He was also one of the most prolific. As Theodore
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What Could Stop Him? | David Cole
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Almost like the cycles of grief, Donald Trump’s reelection has provoked shock, outrage, despondency, exhaustion, and despair. And for good reason. Trump’s
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Death in Nogales | S. C. Cornell
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On January 30, 2023, a forty-eight-year-old Mexican man named Gabriel Cuen Buitimea made his way into the Sonoran desert a few miles east of Nogales,
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A Feigned Reluctance | Jonathan Freedland
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Rory Stewart, in his recent memoir, observes with detachment what is ludicrous in politics—even when he’s near the center of it.
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Torn Apart | Patricia J. Williams
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Errol Morris’s new documentary looks unflinchingly at the horrors of Donald Trump's policy of separating families at the border.
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Against Economics | David Graeber
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Mainstream economists nowadays might not be particularly good at predicting financial crashes, facilitating general prosperity, or coming up with models for preventing climate change, but when it comes to establishing themselves in positions of intellectual authority, unaffected by such...
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Alice Munro’s Retreat | Anne Enright
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In July, two months after Alice Munro died, her daughter Andrea Skinner revealed not only that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather for several
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The Second Coming | Fintan O’Toole
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Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.
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Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia | Magda Teter
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The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.
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Playing for Time | Fintan O’Toole
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With the boisterous energy of direct speech, the novelist Ferdia Lennon takes on both the playfulness and the harsh realism of Euripides.
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All Bets Are Off | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake
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“The Democrats must do everything in their power and influence to oppose, slow down, and attach political costs to the Trump agenda.”
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Homage to Kharkiv | Timothy Garton Ash
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The day I arrived in Kharkiv, a ninety-four-year-old woman was burned alive there by a Russian glide bomb. Her daughter had to order a DNA test to confirm
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Mandelstam's Power | Martin Malia
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"Poetry is power," Osip Mandelstam once said to Anna Akhmatova, thinking of the extraordinary destiny of the Acmeist movement to which the two had
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The Dream of the Raised Arm | Zadie Smith
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It’s no wonder those who lived under the Third Reich suffered ceaseless nightmares. What of our dreams today, under the totalitarianism of the online algorithm?
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Crossing the Archipelago | Robin Robertson
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Rising in November in these days of dusk I am one life older, watching now as the walls green over, the stones break into bud; if this is ebb-tide turned
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The Charms of Catastrophe | Martin Gardner
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If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black and white? —Pope, An Essay on Man "All things," said Charles Peirce, "swim
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Letting It All Hang Out | Fintan O’Toole
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Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.
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The Legacy of Red Vienna | Jenny Uglow
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From 1919 to 1934, socialist Vienna was guided by the "critical rationalism" and the pluralist, collaborative ethos of its thinkers and planners, whose influence endured long after they lost power.
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‘The Kingdom of Ends’ | Langdon Hammer
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Though he began writing near the end of the twentieth century, the poet Reginald Shepherd remained an unapologetic modernist who believed firmly in the autonomy of art.
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‘The Slow Bleeding Out of a Country’ | Andrew Arsan
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Once again Lebanon’s inhabitants are living through—and dying in—a conflict they are powerless to end. Western leaders like British Prime Minister Keir
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The Protection Racket | Fintan O’Toole
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For his supporters, Donald Trump’s misogynist attacks against Kamala Harris turn his own history as a predator into an asset.
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What If He Wins? A Conversation About Trump and the Law | Fintan O’Toole
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The New York Review of Books presents the fourth installment in a series of online events in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. New York
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‘A Woman Who Wins’ | Nicole Rudick
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In her series of historical novels about the life of Saint Hilda of Whitby, Nicola Griffith explores how a woman of modest means became one of the most influential people in seventh-century Britain.
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In March thousands of Russians gathered in Moscow’s Red Square to celebrate Vladimir Putin’s reelection, waving tricolor flags before the jubilant domes
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How Trump Sabotaged Ukraine | Jonathan Stevenson
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, now a rogue leader and a singular menace to international security, sees Ukraine as having fallen under malign sway of
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Expanding the Vocabulary | Patricia J. Williams
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With great discipline and sanity, Kamala Harris has been navigating a minefield of Trumpian insults and attempts to debase her.
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Ku Klux Klambakes | Adam Hochschild
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Most of us who grow up in the United States learn a reassuring narrative of ever-expanding tolerance. Yes, the country’s birth was tainted with the original sin of slavery, but Lincoln freed the slaves, the Supreme Court desegregated schools, and we finally elected a black president. The...
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The Peril of Civil Breakdown | Steven Simon
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The US political situation radiates instability. How likely is extremist violence in the aftermath of the election?
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The Only Way to Fix US Health Care | Adam Gaffney
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The evidence confirms what our patients regard as common sense: copays and deductibles cause people to skip needed care and hence suffer poorer health, and even mortal consequences.
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The Flailing Superpower | Pankaj Mishra
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The spectacle of America on the global stage
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