Tag: Books & Ideas

Articles tagged with books-ideas

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Kelly Lytle Hernández

How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth

Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.

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Hugh Ryan

Queer in Rural America

Many see gayness as inseparable from city life. But many LGBT Americans—particularly queer black folks—live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.

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Gregory Jones-Katz

Deconstruction: An American Tale

Lampooned as a dangerous import from Paris, deconstruction is in fact a distinctively American phenomenon.

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Jordan Michael Smith

Putin’s More Perfect Union

The idea that Putin is driven by the philosophy of Eurasianism obscures the pragmatism of Russia's foreign policy. 

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Aaron Bady

Underneath the Darkness

Yuri Herrera's first two novels explore Mexican border identity. 

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Jo Guldi

Between Experts and Citizens

Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.

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Judith Levine

Transparents

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.

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Matthew Karp

The New World Order

The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.

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Demon Doubt

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow talks with Vivian Gornick about her book The Men in My Life.

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Robin D. G. Kelley

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

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