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Arts in Society, Politics

The Rise of the Anti-Muslim Fringe

— and how it became mainstream.

Aziz Z. Huq

Arts in Society, Politics

Dead Man Talking

Brazil's Spiritists, and their hero Chico Xavier, redefine religion.

Laura Premack

Race

Protesting Too Much

The Trouble with Black Power Revisionism

Randall L. Kennedy

U.S., Books & Ideas

The End

The Politics of American Apocalypse

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Crisis of Man? Lighten Up

“What should be the starting point for twenty-first-century thought?”

Kevin Mattson

Gender & Sexuality

Wounded Women

The assumption of female vulnerability threatens to invigorate the sexist evils it aims to combat.

Jessa Crispin

Arts in Society

Into Darkness

Rikki Ducornet's Deep Zoo

Jenny Hendrix

Class & Inequality

Grassroots Isn't Always Best

A mother's support group in Lodwar, Kenya. Photo: Marisol Grandon, UK Department for

Merlin Chowkwanyun

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Did Christianity Create Liberalism?

On Larry Siedentrop's Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism.

Samuel Moyn

Class & Inequality

A Bigger Tent

Can Richard Trumka Save the Labor Movement?

Amy B. Dean

Arts in Society, Science & Nature

A Matter of the Skies

More birds appear. Bending against the cold, I watch, name, and name again.

Dave Byrne

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Virtue of Scientific Thinking

Scientists have discarded the moral authority that previously accrued to their vocation.

Steven Shapin

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