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American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

Dominic Erdozain on the Contradictions at the Heart of Thomas Jefferson’s United States

By Dominic Erdozain | June 15, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

(Shortly Before Being Exiled from the City for Life)

By Literary Hub | June 15, 2026

How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

Thomas Levenson Takes on Some Common Arguments Against Immunization

By Thomas Levenson | June 11, 2026

Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis.

Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis.

“The people most often kept outside publishing’s institutions should help shape its future.”

By Brittany Allen | June 11, 2026

Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

Myriam Gurba in Conversation with the Author of Freedom: Essays

By Myriam Gurba | June 9, 2026

“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping

“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping

Mali D. Collins on Black Motherhood and Community

By Mali D. Collins | June 8, 2026

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Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond

By Steven W. Thrasher | June 5, 2026

On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life

By Chris Smalls | June 5, 2026

How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change

By Yotam Marom | June 5, 2026

Marjane Satrapi, author of <em> Persepolis, </em> has died at 58.

Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, has died at 58.

By Brittany Allen | June 4, 2026

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

Tom Zoellner on the Antebellum Precedent of Trump-Era Censorship

By Tom Zoellner | June 3, 2026

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June

From Natural Histories of American Megafauna to Domestic Memoirs of Parenting While Trans, This Month Has Something For Everyone

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2026

The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

Matthew Cole Raises the Alarm

By Matthew Cole | May 28, 2026

How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

Odd Arne Westad on the Lessons We Haven't Learned From the Devastation of the Great War

By Odd Arne Westad | May 27, 2026

On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

Sarah M.S. Pearsall Discusses the Bloody History of Pontiac‘s War

By Sarah M. S. Pearsall | May 26, 2026

Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?

Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?

Andrew Bayliss Wonders Why the Chinese Leader Keeps Bringing Up the “Thucydides Trap”?

By Andrew Bayliss | May 22, 2026

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