Peter Singer leads the forum on the logic of effective altruism. Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Paul Brest, Larissa MacFarquhar, and others respond. Plus: Stephen Steinberg on the Moynihan Report at 50; Claude Fischer writes about the problem with David Brooks; Vivian Gornick reviews Susan Neiman’s Why Grow Up?; and essays on Mary Jo Bang and Fred Moten.
Forum
The Logic of Effective Altruism
PETER SINGER DEBATES
DARON ACEMOGLU, EMMA SAUNDERS-HASTINGS, ANGUS DEATON, ROB REICH, JENNIFER RUBENSTEIN, PAUL BREST, LARISSA MACFARQUHAR, IASON GABRIEL, LEILA JANAH, ANDRÁS MIKLÓS, AND CATHERINE TUMBER.
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
Dispatch: Beaches and Bombs
Sarah Hill
Dispatch: Toxic Tourism
Tom Barry
Perspective: One Nation Under God
Laura Premack
Made in America: The Problem with David Brooks
Claude S. Fischer
Wonders: Cold Case
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Books & Ideas
Your Own Worst Enemy: Susan Neiman’s Why Grow Up?
Vivian Gornick
A Science of Literature
Ben Merriman
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Meg Freitag introduced by Lisa Olstein
Keepers of History: Mary Jo Bang’s The Last Two Seconds
Elizabeth Metzger
Work This Thing: Fred Moten’s The Little Edges and The Feel Trio
Elizabeth Willis
Microreviews
Dan Beachy-Quick, Tatsumi Hijikata, and more
On Film
Can She Act? Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria
Alan A. Stone
Poems
My Word
Robyn Schiff
Devouring Each Other
Christopher Kondrich
Morning Lasso
Rebecca Lehmann
Untitled (Dream with Red Splash) and L’Enfant du Paradis
Susan Mitchell
Arbiter
John Kinsella
Shank of the Day: An Epithalamion
Rachel Galvin
In a Peaceful Place
Andrew Allport
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