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Arts in Society

Everyone’s Problem

Imaginging, and depicting, sexual trauma in verse.

  • Jessica Bozek
Class & Inequality

Inequality Is Not Our Fate

The way back to an egalitarian society.

  • Stuart White
Class & Inequality Politics

To Hell with Good Intentions

School reform is failing America’s children.

  • Rob Reich
Arts in Society

Poetry in Ziploc Bags: How to Embrace the Academy

“I am less inclined to imagine a future for my students in which poetry has been restored to its rightful freedom as pure pleasure.”

  • DeSales Harrison
Arts in Society

Bad Intelligence

  • Corey Van Landingham
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Phillip B. Williams

Williams observes, with courage and fragility, his own mortality and promise.

  • Phillip B. Williams
  • Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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Arts in Society Philosophy Politics

In Memory of Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015)

The revolutionary theorist sought not liberal stability but democratic adventure.

  • Anne Norton

A Moment for Primo Levi

Nearly thirty years later, the circumstances of Primo Levi’s death continue to provoke debate.

  • Boston Review
Science

Who Owns Molecular Biology?

The patent war for DNA-editing technology.

  • Yarden Katz
Science

Resisting Antibiotics

The social challenges of drug reform

  • Robert Bud
Arts in Society

Washington Square Park

  • Major Jackson
Philosophy Science

Ghost in the Machine

Is digital life soulless or the site of a new transcendence?

  • Jenny Hendrix
Race

Historical Method and the Noble Lie

Mass incarceration is so politicized that we can't talk about its origins.

  • Michael Javen Fortner
Arts in Society

Agave

  • Primo Levi
Class & Inequality Philosophy

The Lure of Luxury

Most people own things they don’t really need. It is worth thinking about why.

  • Paul Bloom
with responses from
  • Virginia Postrel
  • Susan A. Gelman
  • Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Shamus Khan
  • Debra Satz
  • David Cloutier
  • Joel M. Podolny
  • Bruce Hood
  • Judith Levine
  • Will Wilkinson
Class & Inequality

The Unseen Threat of Capital Mobility

Off-shoring, tax havens, and other scourges of globalization.

  • Marshall Steinbaum
Arts in Society

An Honest Woman

Isabel Coixet's Learning to Drive

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

Little Gods

Fanny Howe's Second Childhood

  • Heather Treseler
Arts in Society

Those Absurd Notes

translated from the Spanish by Rosa Alcalá

  • Cecilia Vicuña
Arts in Society

The Unseen World

Stacy Szymaszek’s hart island.

  • Dale Smith

From the Editors: November/December 2015

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Arts in Society

Cheapest Solutions

Sure, we weren’t alone. We had neighbors a couple of miles down the road . . .

  • Dini Parayitam
Philosophy Politics

Reliable Rebel

Jeremy Corbyn and the Revival of the Radical Left

  • Martin O’Neill
Gender & Sexuality Politics

Grandparents Today

Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner in Grandma.

  • Claude S. Fischer
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