January/February 2016
The New Nature
In our first forum of 2016, Jedediah Purdy accepts that there is no longer a nature independent of human meddling—so how then, he asks, do we make that condition more democratic? Alisa Reznick reports on how clean water is being used as a weapon in Syria's civil war, and David G. Victor questions whether university divestment from fossil fuels really brings us closer to a greener future. In an arresting personal essay, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey reports on an experiment in the humane raising and butchering of pigs. Also, Nick Bromell asks whether we should...
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The New Nature
Jedediah Purdy debates
Jo Guldi, Jairus Grove, Robert Paarlberg, Andreas Malm, David Keith, Anna Tsing, Ugo Mattei, Vandana Shiva, Paul Waldau, and Roy Scranton.
Foundations
Dispatch: Weaponizing Syria’s Water
Made in America: Survey Says . . .
Books & Ideas
Carbon on Campus
To Be and To Do
Leland de la Durantaye
Beyond Freedom and Equality
Nick Bromell
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Uyen Hua introduced by Chris Nealon
A Strange and Quiet Fullness
The Volatile I
Johannes Goransson
