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The Fight Ahead
The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old-fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.
Our Machiavellian Moment
Much maligned as a mere tactician of power, Machiavelli was in fact a philosopher of the people.
Medicine’s Machine Learning Problem
As Big Data tools reshape health care, biased datasets and unaccountable algorithms threaten to further disempower patients.
A More Perfect Meritocracy
Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.
What We Still Get Wrong About Alexander Hamilton
Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.
Untangling Fiction and Reality in the Balkans
On Honeyland, the award-winning documentary from directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov.
New Book: Ancestors
In our Winter 2021 book, some of today’s most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. Preorder now.
Feminism in Lockdown
The pandemic has foregrounded women’s exploitation in the home and challenged feminism to once again go beyond middle-class concerns.
Caste Does Not Explain Race
The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.
Can We Deduce Our Way to Salvation?
A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.
How Did the GOP Become the Party of Ideas?
If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start.
Caring in Viral Times
Amid widespread indifference toward the most vulnerable, even small acts of kindness can make a difference.
How Americans Came to Distrust Science
For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.
Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization
The French Algerian writer steadfastly defended democracy and humanity against dogmatic ideologies of all stripes.
New Book: Climate Action
How are we to meet the challenge of global warming before it is too late? And if global diplomacy initiatives like the Paris Agreement can’t get us there, what can? Order our latest book now.
Witnessing Grace
In Be Holding, celebrated poet Ross Gay interweaves the legacy of one of basketball’s greatest moments with a meditation on Black resilience.
The Gadfly of American Plutocracy
Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.
Museums and Mourning in COVID-19
Museums rose to the challenge of responding to HIV/AIDS. They can do so again in the face of COVID-19.
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