Tag: Books & Ideas

Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.

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

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

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

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

Many LGBT Americans live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.

A new series explores how reading works by global women of color is generative.

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

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

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

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.

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

Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?

The resolution of a tantalizing hint of new physics discovered last year.

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

The Higgs boson was just the beginning of what CERN might find.

The history of false alarms leading up to the final discovery.

How social insurance became confused with socialism.

Government incentives may make us less moral, not more.

Local government can't fix our problems. Only big government can.

Paul Park’s fantasy troubles the line between fiction and reality.

An inside look at the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.