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Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn't Need, As Important As Ever

Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn't Need, As Important As Ever

Gabrielle Bellot on America's Foundational Divide

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 20, 2017

Disposable People, Dying to Build a City in the Desert

Disposable People, Dying to Build a City in the Desert

Behind the Exploitative Labor Practices that Inspired Temporary People

By Beenish Ahmed | July 20, 2017

Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

On the Appearance of a Literary Icon at the First Women's Marches

By Devoney Looser | July 18, 2017

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Sarah Sentilles on Empathy, Art, and Abu Ghraib

By Sarah Sentilles | July 17, 2017

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

The Ongoing and Depressing Relevance of a 200-Year-Old Thinker

By Emily Temple | July 12, 2017

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

By Howard Zinn | July 12, 2017

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When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

By Brian Platzer | July 11, 2017

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

By Sam O'Hana | July 7, 2017

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

By Daniel A. Gross | July 7, 2017

Have Journalists Forgotten to Think Like Readers?

Have Journalists Forgotten to Think Like Readers?

A Modest Proposal to Save the Media: Tell It To Me Like a Six-Year-Old

By Caren Lissner | July 6, 2017

We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

We Have to Get Radical with the Idea of the Other

By Sarah Sentilles | July 6, 2017

Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt on What Freedom and Revolution Really Mean

Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt on What Freedom and Revolution Really Mean

Thoughts on Poverty, Misery, and the Great Revolutions of History

By Hannah Arendt | June 27, 2017

Plum Sykes: You Know It's Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

Plum Sykes: You Know It's Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

The Author of Party Girls Die in Pearls on Trump, Brexit, and Getting Political

By Plum Sykes | June 23, 2017

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

A New Book Traces These Origins to NYC's 1970s Financial Crisis

By Isaac Kaplan | June 22, 2017

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

By Ed Simon | June 21, 2017

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Lawrence Lenhart Offers a Very Personal Case Study in Rust Belt Decline

By Lawrence Lenhart | June 20, 2017

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