Paul Bloom leads a forum discussion on why we crave luxury goods. Martin O’Neill writes about what the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn means for the future of the Radical Left. Jenny Hendrix reviews Sven Birkerts’s new book on the perils of “smart” devices, and Nathan Robinson warns that bad forensic science is ruining criminal justice. Plus, Cathy Park Hong announces the winner of our annual poetry contest, Safiya Sinclair.
Forum
The Lure of Luxury
PAUL BLOOM DEBATES
SUSAN A. GELMAN, VIRGINIA POSTREL, SHAMUS KHAN, NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS, DAVID CLOUTIER, DEBRA SATZ, BRUCE HOOD, JOEL M. PODOLNY, WILL WILKINSON, AND JUDITH LEVINE.
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
Dispatch: A Rock and a Hard Place
Umar Farooq
Made in America: A Street Divided
Claude Fischer
Wonders: “Female Viagra” Is No Feminist Triumph
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Perspective: The Refugee Crisis Is Here to Stay
Elizabeth Dunn
Context
Reliable Rebel: Jeremy Corbyn and the Revival of the Radical Left
Books & Ideas
A Servant Heart: How Neoliberalism Came to Be
James Chappel
Ghost in the Machine: Sven Birkerts’s Changing the Subject
Jenny Hendrix
Forensic Pseudoscience: The Unheralded Crisis of Criminal Justice
Nathan Robinson
Inequality Is Not Our Fate
Stuart White
On Poetry
Eighteenth Annual Poetry Contest
Safiya Sinclair introduced by Cathy Park Hong
Everyone’s Problem: Cathy Linh Che’s Split and Lizzie Harris’s Stop Wanting
Jessica Bozek
In Deep and Out Far: Joanna Klink’s Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy and Emily Wilson’s The Great Medieval Yellows
Poems
Bad Intelligence
Corey Van Landingham
I Am Karl Marx
Jen Levitt
Courtyard Fire
Arthur Sze
Archive Fever
Hai-Dang Phan
The Maker
J. Estanislao Lopez