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Race

Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration?

Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

  • Donna Murch
Arts in Society

Come On Up, Sweetheart

James Baldwin’s letters to his brother.

  • Ed Pavlić
Arts in Society

What Kind

  • Maggie Nelson
Philosophy Politics

Thoreau’s Public Mind

The author of Walden was not an enemy of civic life.

  • Simon Waxman
Arts in Society

The Gore Vidal Museum

The author's bid against being forgotten.

  • Daniel Luzer
Arts in Society

Fall Poetry Reads

New books from Anne Boyer, Ross Gay, Corina Copp, Noah Eli Gordon, Sandra Simonds

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Law Politics

Half a Loaf

In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.

  • Assaf Sharon
Arts in Society

Insofarian Regress

  • Nathaniel Mackey
Arts in Society

John Clare’s Heirs

The Enduring Reach of a Rural Poet

  • Stephanie Burt
Politics

The People’s Technocracy

But do transparency and smarter government have the power to effect major changes?

  • Andrew Mayersohn
Arts in Society

Memories of My Overdevelopment

  • Daniel Borzutzky
Arts in Society

Barnum and Bosch (2)

  • John Yau
Arts in Society

Smartphones Aren’t Anti-Social

Systematic, reliable evidence that Americans converse less in person than before is hard to find.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

Poetic Geometries

Moby-Dick as Primer to Creative Crisis

  • Dan Beachy-Quick
Philosophy

Feeling into Action

On Lori Gruen’s Entangled Empathy

  • Colin Dayan
Law Politics Race

The Failure of Refugee Camps

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
Arts in Society

Excerpt from “Stones Single, or in Handfuls”

  • Gozo Yoshimasu
  • Sayuri Okamoto
  • Derek Gromadzki
Arts in Society

End Credits (Friends)

  • D. A. Powell
Race

I’m Fine How I Am

A response to Randall Kennedy’s defense of respectability politics.

  • Christopher Lebron
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Max Ritvo

  • Lucie Brock-Broido
  • Max Ritvo
Gender & Sexuality Politics

Our Panics, Ourselves

Richard Beck’s new book on the moral panic over child abuse in the 1980s.

  • Rebecca Onion
Politics

Hail to the Pencil Pusher

American bureaucracy’s long and useful history.

  • Mike Konczal
Arts in Society

Writing the Black Terrific

  • Carmen Giménez Smith
Politics

The Growing Orthodox Threat to Israeli Democracy

It is becoming impossible to ignore the growing theocratic elements in a nation that sees itself as the only democracy in the Middle East.

  • Elad Uzan
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