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Open Letter to the People of the United States of America
Iranian citizens urge Americans to support the U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement.
Anxieties of Democracy
Democracy no longer has rivals, but its fairness and effectiveness face skepticism.
Learning from the Watts Rebellion
Half a century on, we need to recommit ourselves to correcting the conditions that undergirded the civil unrest of the 1960s.
Wharton, Colette, Lispector
Between 1885 and 1943, three brilliant female novelists married young, to men who would never understand their passions or come to terms with the scope of their gifts.
The Ongoing Menace
Toby Martinez de las Rivas is the first poet to rise to Geoffrey Hill’s manifold challenges.
CRISPR: The Latest Biotech Hype
A useful as the CRISPR-Cas system of gene editing has proven in research, we should be wary of bio-hype. One can’t accurately read—or write—the future in genes alone.
How Should a Friendship Be?
On the reissue of Linda Rosenkrantz’s Talk.
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