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Arts in Society

Everyday Apocalypse

Ansel Elkins's Blue Yodel

  • Olivia Schwob
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The Carbon Cycle

Kathleen Ossip's The Do-Over

  • Martha Silano
Politics

The Point of Those Annoying Campaign Emails

Raising money is still the first and most vital task of a campaign, so the hysteria conveyed by these emails is based on real desperation.

  • Andrew Mayersohn
Arts in Society

My Word

  • Robyn Schiff
Arts in Society

Dole Girl

2015 Aura Estrada Contest Winner

  • Barbara Hamby
Philosophy

The Logic of Effective Altruism

A minimally acceptable ethical life requires using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place.

  • Peter Singer
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  • Emma Saunders-Hastings
  • Daron Acemoglu
  • Rob Reich
  • Angus Deaton
  • Paul Brest
  • Jennifer Rubenstein
  • Iason Gabriel
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Law Politics

Executive Secrecy

If we want to check presidential power—and check it we must—then it is essential that we resist claims to executive secrecy.

  • William Howell
  • Mariah Zeisberg
Gender & Sexuality Politics

In Same-Sex Marriage Case, a Contest over History

History really matters in Obergefell v. Hodges.

  • Nancy F. Cott

From the Editors: July/August 2015

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Arts in Society

erasing love

  • Kimiko Hahn
Gender & Sexuality Law Politics

Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Sexual Liberation

Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.

  • Judith Levine
Arts in Society

Translation: The Mangled Braid

Translation is always other than its original: even if it is unimpeachably faithful, a translated story will feel and act differently in a new language.

  • Nick Admussen
Arts in Society

Can She Act?

Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria

  • Alan A. Stone
Law Philosophy

Teaching Philosophy on Death Row: An Interview with Lisa Guenther

This conversation is the tenth in the series, Trench Democracy: Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

  • Albert W. Dzur
Gender & Sexuality Politics

Same-Sex Marriage Yes, Adultery No?

Trends in American Opinion

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

Microreview: Samantha Giles, Deadfalls and Snares

  • Anna Moschovakis
Class & Inequality Race

The Moynihan Report at Fifty

On the long reach of intellectual racism.

  • Stephen Steinberg
Arts in Society

Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta

  • Rickey Laurentiis
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First Light: Elliot Park

  • Lisa Fink
Law Science

Justice and Warfare in Cyberspace

The Department of Defense's Cyber Strategy Memorandum

  • Lisa Lucile Owens
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Preserving the Self

The Political Economy of Attention

  • George Scialabba
Arts in Society Law Race

Racism: Dumb and Personal / Smart and Structural

Opponents often associate racism with ignorance. But intelligent people promote oppression through colorblindness.

  • Simon Waxman
Arts in Society

Bad Enough With Genghis Khan

  • Sarah Layden
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Microreview: Joanna Penn Cooper, What Is a Domicile

  • Carlo Matos
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