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Arts in Society

When All the Leaves

  • Oni Buchanan
Class & Inequality Politics

The American Left, Liberalism, and Equality

An interview with historian Eli Zaretsky.

  • Eli Zaretsky
  • Sean Fabery
Arts in Society

For My Son

  • Stephen Dunn
Arts in Society

Recommendation: Elizabeth Willis’s Address

  • Richard Deming
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My Friends Were Having Sex and I Wanted to Fit In

  • Katie Degentesh
Arts in Society

Wilds

  • Michele Glazer

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“Transliterate mistranslations” of Arthur Rimbaud’s Une Saison En Enfer

  • Sean Kilpatrick
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Amor Fati

  • Sandra Lim
Arts in Society

Recommendation: Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road

  • David Lehman
Politics

The Port Huron Statement at 50

Reassessing the document that sparked an era of activism.

  • Tom Hayden
with responses from
  • Kim Phillips-Fein
  • Bill Ayers
  • Angus Johnston
  • Eric Mann
  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Danielle Allen
  • Jennifer Hochschild
  • Trevor Stutz
  • Bernardine Dohrn
Arts in Society

All One Has Before One

  • Simone Kearney
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Objectivity

  • Tanya Larkin
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Stakes Is High

  • Marcus Wicker
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Store

  • Jon Woodward
Arts in Society

The Story of How You Went to the Museum

  • Jon Woodward
Arts in Society

Recommendation: Erica Kaufman’s “Instant Classic”

  • Eileen Myles
Arts in Society

from The Bridge

  • Mary Austin Speaker
Arts in Society

Poem of Hope, Almost at Equinox

  • Brenda Hillman
Arts in Society

Mystical Lichen Falls Through the Fonts

  • Brenda Hillman
Arts in Society

Microreview: Elizabeth Willis, Address

Willis has the finest ear for the lyric amongst her generation.

  • Richard Deming
Arts in Society Politics

My Dinner with Andrew Breitbart

Breaking bread with the right’s bad boys.

  • Bill Ayers
Politics Race

The Future of Black Politics

With black civil society in retreat, how can we rebuild black politics?

  • Michael C. Dawson
with responses from
  • William Julius Wilson
  • Andra Gillespie
  • Tommie Shelby
  • Rev. Patrick H. O’Connor
  • Jennifer L. Hochschild
  • Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres
  • Dorian T. Warren
  • Robin D. G. Kelley
Philosophy Politics

Contraception and Counterrevolution

An Interview with Corey Robin

  • Corey Robin
  • David V. Johnson
Law Philosophy Science

After the Slaughter

Have recent events in Afghanistan brought the war to a critical turning point? For U.S. troops stationed there, little has changed.

  • Matt Gallagher
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