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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

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.

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

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.

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

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump

Does Trump’s success vindicate or undermine liberal theory?

Samuel Scheffler

Literature & Culture

Poland’s Forgotten Bohemian War Hero

From the bisexual demimonde of prewar Paris to investigating Soviet war crimes, Józef Czapski’s life encapsulates the extremes of twentieth-century Europe.

Marta Figlerowicz

Race

When Jamaica Led the Postcolonial Fight Against Exploitation

In the 1970s, a bloc of Third World states forced the United Nations to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth. Could their example inspire a new generation?

Literature & Culture

Was Architecture Better Under Socialism?

Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings—frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.

Anthony Paletta

Philosophy & Religion

Is Philanthropy Anti-Democratic?

The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump

Samuel Scheffler

Democracy Without God

James G. Chappel

When Catholicism Embraced Modernity

Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach

The Philosophy of Our Time

What John Stuart Mill Got Wrong about Freedom of Speech

The Conversion of Pope Francis

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Don't Overthink It

Politics

Trickle-Down Authoritarianism

Benjamin H. Bradlow

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

No Collision

The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump

Samuel Scheffler

Two-State Head, One-State Heart

Jeremy Pressman

Empire's Racketeers

Wajahat Ali, Pankaj Mishra

Selling Outrage

Yochai Benkler, Deborah Chasman

Teachers with Guns

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

Elizabeth Catte

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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