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One Nigeria Under God

Nigeria's recent election encouraged alliances among Muslims and Christians.

  • Laura Premack
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In a Peaceful Place

  • Andrew Allport
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Shank of the Day: An Epithalamion

  • Rachel Galvin
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Root Work

Nathaniel Mackey's Blue Fasa

  • Michael Leong
Arts in Society Science

A Science of Literature

It has been said that computation will mark the end of humanistic inquiry. Actual literary research in this vein suggests otherwise.

  • Ben Merriman
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Microreviews: July/August 2015

Dan Beachy-Quick, Tatsumi Hijikata, and more.

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Arbiter

  • John Kinsella
Class & Inequality Science

Toxic Tourism

  • Tom Barry
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Suspicious Duffel Bag, LSA Anaconda

  • Hugh Martin
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Archipelagos of Experience

Translating Southeaster by Haroldo Conti.

  • Jessica Sequeira
Arts in Society Politics

The Problem with David Brooks

In true American style, Brooks understands our lives to be the products of individual will alone.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Science

GMOs Are Safe—So Let’s Label Them

Genetically engineered foods are safe, but there are still good reasons to label them.

  • Simon Waxman
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Two Poems

  • Susan Mitchell
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Poet’s Sampler: Meg Freitag

  • Meg Freitag
  • Lisa Olstein
Class & Inequality

The Future of Work in the Uber Economy

Creating a Safety Net in a Multi-Employer World

  • Steven Hill
Class & Inequality

Desegregation Is Not Intolerable Social Engineering

The new HUD desegregation rule is a democratic reform, not a utopian one.

  • Simon Waxman
Science

Beaches and Bombs

On vacationing in Vieques.

  • Sarah Hill
Gender & Sexuality

How Not to Be Elizabeth Gilbert

For female travel writers, it’s a risk.

  • Jessa Crispin
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Morning Lasso

  • Rebecca Lehmann
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Devouring Each Other

  • Christopher Kondrich
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Work This Thing

Two new books by Fred Moten

  • Elizabeth Willis
Class & Inequality Politics

Training for Neoliberalism

Behavioral economics and its ideological tendencies.

  • John McMahon
Class & Inequality Law Philosophy

Effective Altruism’s Political Blind Spot

“Effective altruism,” the philanthropic movement founded on Peter Singer’s ideas, applies a consequentialist philosophy to the problem of global poverty.

  • Emily Clough
Arts in Society Philosophy

Your Own Worst Enemy

Every day we transgress against our own longing to act well.

  • Vivian Gornick
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