The Latest

Arts in Society

saints & or: notes in the form of sonnets (millay effects)

  • Michael Farrell
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Stacy Szymaszek

  • Stacy Szymaszek
  • Lisa Jarnot
Arts in Society

Strange Relations

Jesse Ball’s March Book, Spencer Reece’s The Clerk’s Tale, and Srikanth Reddy’s Facts for Visitors

  • DeSales Harrison
Arts in Society

An Unillusioned Life

The Collected Poems of Donald Justice.

  • Stephanie Burt
Arts in Society

The Ethics of Language

  • Alan Gilbert
Arts in Society

For God and Country

Two Henry Vs.

  • Alan A. Stone

Sign up for our newsletter

Arts in Society

My Good Man

A short story. 

  • Eric Gansworth
Arts in Society

New Jews from the Old Country

A new wave of immigrant fiction.

  • Val Vinokur
Arts in Society

Longing for God

Writing in Mississippi.

  • Darcey Steinke
Law Science

Hungry for Air

Learning the language of torture.

  • Deborah Stone
Law

The Blemish of Conquest

Moshe Dayan questioned American goals in Vietnam. What would he say about Iraq?

  • Martin van Creveld
Class & Inequality Politics Race

The Good Empire

Should we pick up where the British left off?

  • Vivek Chibber
Law Politics

Cold War Casualties

How our claim of victory distorts American foreign policy.

  • Neta C. Crawford
Race

American Soup

The basic principle of Samuel Huntington’s patriotism: never recognize that anything of substance comes from somewhere besides Anglo-Protestantanism.

  • Claudio Lomnitz
Arts in Society

Microreview: Oni Buchanan, What Animal

  • Aimee Kelley
Arts in Society

Microreview: Bin Ramke, Matter

  • Fred Muratori
Arts in Society

Review: Otherhood

By Reginald Shepherd.

  • Robert Strong
Arts in Society

Microreview: Cole Swensen, Goest

  • Michael Robbins
Law

The Right Fight

Enlisted by the feds, can police find sleeper cells and protect civil rights, too?

  • Daniel Richman
with responses from
  • David A. Harris
  • Bob Barr
  • Edward Rubin
  • William J. Stuntz
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • David A. Sklansky
  • Elizabeth Glazer
  • Richard Thompson Ford
  • Corey Robin
Arts in Society Politics

Who Owns Bruno Schulz?

Poland stumbles over its Jewish past.

  • Benjamin Paloff
Politics Race Science

Freedom Railway

The unexpected successes of a Cold War development project.

  • Jamie Monson
Arts in Society

Song Disowned

  • Bruce Smith
Law

Best Intentions

The story of Tanzania’s people’s park.

  • Christine J. Walley
Law Politics

What Went Wrong

Why the United States must resist the impulse to remake entire societies, particularly through military might.

  • Rajan Menon
trending_flat
Get our newsletter

Vital reading on politics, ideas, and culture to your inbox

A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975

Registered 501(c)(3) organization

Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Donate

Become a Member

Subscribe