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Intimate Obscenity

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Gray Area

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Nate Silver’s Data Narratives

Data can give a sense of scale to political debate.

  • Andrew Mayersohn
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Microreview: Emily Pettit, Goat in the Snow

A radiant debut.

  • Sasha Fletcher
Science

Eco-Puritans

The urban left’s eco-puritanism takes many forms. 

  • Claude S. Fischer
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Excavation

  • Julian B. Gewirtz

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Lunar/Lunario

  • Marcia Mogro
  • Carol Peters
Politics

Can Vladimir Putin Upend Democracy in Europe?

In the face of Putin’s rejection of democracy, Europe’s democrats must underscore the importance of the EU’s norms: social justice, sustainability, diplomacy, diversity, and freedom of movement.

  • Paul Hockenos
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Issue

  • Michele Glazer
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Children of the Flood

  • Tyler Mills
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Two Poems

  • Dorothea Lasky
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Trance Notebook #18

  • Wayne Koestenbaum
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Future Doors

An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum

  • Wayne Koestenbaum
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Class & Inequality

Thinking Inequality

Americans want action on inequality in a notably American way.

  • Claude S. Fischer
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from SIGINT

  • Ken Babstock
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Still Life with Antlers

  • Sally Wen Mao
Class & Inequality Law

California’s Prisons Fail the Mentally Ill (But They Can Change)

  • Jessica Pishko
Philosophy Politics

Daniel Dennett and Steven Pinker: Can We Become a More Peaceful Species?

A recording of their debate at the Unlearning Violence conference.

  • John Berger
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A Hearing

  • Robyn Schiff
Gender & Sexuality Philosophy

The Possibility of Self-Sacrifice

When is public death meaningful? A case study of political suicide.

  • Oded Na’aman
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Claiming Language

  • Shane McCrae
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A Woman and Her Job

  • Elizabeth Clark Wessel
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Three Poems

  • Tom Thompson
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Nearly Baroque

Nearly Baroque poets want art that puts excess, invention, and ornament first.

  • Stephanie Burt
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