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Politics

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

Maximillian Alvarez

Class & Inequality

Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy

Business schools fetishize entrepreneurial innovation, but their most prominent heroes succeeded because they manipulated corporate law, not because of personal brilliance.

Politics

The Death and Life of the Jewish Century

The resurgence of anti-Semitism today is not a quirk of Donald Trump. As a new book shows, it has deep roots in powerful institutions.

Benjamin Balthaser

Education & Opportunity, Politics

Teachers with Guns

What happens when a school district votes to arm teachers? A Rust Belt educator takes us through the grim realities of training to kill one of his own students.

Race

Succeeding While Black

Michelle Obama’s new book reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and grin. This is a dangerous proposition.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

War & Security

Banking on the Cold War

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

Nikhil Pal Singh

Philosophy & Religion

Democracy Without God

In a new book, philosopher Martin Hägglund argues that only atheists are truly committed to improving our world. But people of faith and socialists have more in common than he thinks.

James G. Chappel

Politics

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.

Elizabeth Catte

Gender & Sexuality

Finally Seeing Andrea

Andrea Dworkin is remembered for saying that all sex is rape—even though she never said that. A new collection reintroduces the radical feminist to the next generation of “nasty women.”

Jeremy Lybarger

Politics

Two-State Head, One-State Heart

For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.

Jeremy Pressman

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump

Does Trump’s success vindicate or undermine liberal theory?

Samuel Scheffler

Literature & Culture

Dystopia Is Everywhere

Hye-young Pyun’s surreal, violent novels reject stereotypes about Korean women’s writing, taking up global themes of environmental collapse and the loneliness of city life.

Philosophy & Religion

The Philosophy of Our Time

What John Stuart Mill Got Wrong about Freedom of Speech

Is Philanthropy Anti-Democratic?

The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump

Samuel Scheffler

Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach

Don't Overthink It

Democracy Without God

James G. Chappel

The Conversion of Pope Francis

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

When Catholicism Embraced Modernity

Politics

The Death and Life of the Jewish Century

Benjamin Balthaser

Selling Outrage

Yochai Benkler, Deborah Chasman

Teachers with Guns

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

Elizabeth Catte

The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump

Samuel Scheffler

The End of the End of History

Maximillian Alvarez

Two-State Head, One-State Heart

Jeremy Pressman

No Collision

READING LISTS

The College Admissions Scam Is Not the Problem

READING LIST

It's not just celebrity moms — middle-class families are guilty too.

Our Best Film Writing For Oscars Weekend

READING LIST

Lars von Trier. Stanley Kubrick. Michael Haneke.

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