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Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Your Own Worst Enemy

Every day we transgress against our own longing to act well.

Vivian Gornick

Politics, War & Security

Executive Secrecy

If we want to check presidential power—and check it we must—then it is essential that we resist claims to executive secrecy.

William Howell, Mariah Zeisberg

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Preserving the Self

Matthew Crawford reflects on the political economy of attention in The World Beyond Your Head.

George Scialabba

Law & Justice

The Folly of Neoliberal Prison Reform

Racism ensures that blacks are vastly more likely than whites to be imprisoned. However, there is more to the story.

Marie Gottschalk

Arts in Society

A Good, Bad, Hard, Easy Life

A new collection of Lead Belly's recordings.

Dave Byrne

Arts in Society

An Extra Life

Jorie Graham's From the New World

Katie Peterson

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

American Cynicism

And its cure.

Jess Row

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

The Seduction of Normalcy

On Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts.

Diana Arterian

Arts in Society, Science & Nature

How Patent Law Created Inventors

Alexander Graham Bell and Telecom's Founding Myth

Graeme Gooday

Arts in Society

Decide for Yourself

Truth in the Films of Errol Morris.

Randolph Lewis

Arts in Society

Life Sings with Many Voices

Eduardo Galeano began as a propagandist, convinced of a single dogmatic truth. He became an artist.

Nathan J. Robinson

Arts in Society

Ruin

Online shaming is a cathartic alternative to real efforts at social change.

Meghan O’Gieblyn

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