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Failed Utopias: Can You Buy an Immaculate World With Dirty Money?

Failed Utopias: Can You Buy an Immaculate World With Dirty Money?

Caite Dolan-Leach on the Oneida Experiment

By Caite Dolan-Leach | August 6, 2019

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

What Contraception Meant to a Century of Women Writers

Julie Philips on Reproductive Justice and the Great 20th-Century Mother-Writers

By Julie Phillips | August 5, 2019

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

On the 'Monstrous Development of Technology'

By Walter Benjamin | August 2, 2019

The Life of Afong Moy, the First Chinese Woman in America

The Life of Afong Moy, the First Chinese Woman in America

Contending with the Orientalist Fears and Fantasies of a Young Nation

By Nancy E. Davis | August 2, 2019

On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

On Svetlana Alexievich: What Can a Book Do in the Face of War?

Rachel Seiffert Considers Last Witnesses

By Rachel Seiffert | August 1, 2019

127 years after his death, letters of love and angst still come to Rimbaud's grave.

127 years after his death, letters of love and angst still come to Rimbaud's grave.

By Aaron Robertson | July 31, 2019

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Never Again What? On the Hard Questions Primo Levi's Still Asking

By Giacomo Lichtner | July 31, 2019

Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

By Brandon Shimoda | July 30, 2019

A Brief and Awful History
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By Andrew Scull | July 30, 2019

On Hitler's Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

On Hitler's Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

"Paris must not fall into enemy hands except as a field of ruins."

By Jean Edward Smith | July 30, 2019

The Writer and the Dictator: <br>A Love/Hate Story

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Alaa Al Aswany on Tawfiq al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit and its Influence on Egyptian Politics

By Alaa Al Aswany | July 29, 2019

Apocalyptic Prophets: Reading the Fine Print of Ammon Bundy's Divine Mandate

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Sally Denton on the Cowboy Constitutionalists of the Oregon Militia Standoff

By Sally Denton | July 25, 2019

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

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How Eduard Douwes Dekker's Max Havelaar Led to a Revolution

By Pramoedya Ananta Toer | July 25, 2019

On the Hypercapitalist Utopian Project of Singapore

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Trisha Low Examines the Successes and Failures of Lee Kuan Yew's Vision

By Trisha Low | July 24, 2019

The Unsung Woman Who Changed How We Take Care of Newborns

The Unsung Woman Who Changed How We Take Care of Newborns

How Virginia Apgar Revolutionized the Metrics for Measuring a Baby's Health

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In the Woods: Telling the Finnish-American Immigrant Story

In the Woods: Telling the Finnish-American Immigrant Story

Karl Marlantes on the Hardworking Lives of His Ancestors

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