Books & Ideas

“The Tremendous Suffering of Ordinary People”

Barbara Rylko-Bauer’s A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps.

  • Paul Farmer

The Russians Came!

Soviet émigré children spent their adolescence stretched on the rack of learning cool.

  • Val Vinokur

The Power of Bad Ideas

Why is free market fundamentalism so durable if it is so obviously wrong and destructive?

  • Michael McCarthy

Good Feminist

Should feminism join with other causes, or make its own path?

  • Vivian Gornick

On Pablo Neruda and Autism

A conversation with Adam Feinstein.

  • Jessica Sequeira

Extraordinary Criminals

Why don’t corporate wrongdoers go to prison?

  • Jessica Pishko

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Marcuse Today

Fifty years later, One-Dimensional Man looks more prescient than its author could have imagined.

  • Ronald Aronson

Selling Fast

Public goods, profits, and state legitimacy.

  • Mike Konczal

Light Fades in East Berlin

An Interview with Eugen Ruge.

  • John Shakespear
  • Eugen Ruge

Fearful Parenting Is Contagious

Anti-vaxxers need to relax.

  • Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Zionism and the Right to Culture

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

  • Omri Boehm

My Body Is a Cage

Mixed Martial Arts as Greek Tragedy

  • Jenny Hendrix

Rethinking Privacy

A little surveillance can do us a lot of good.

  • William H. Simon

Baby, Take a Bow

Shirley Temple and the Myth of Childhood Innocence

  • Judith Levine

Crash Course

Preventing the next financial crisis.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

God’s Country

The making of American exceptionalism.

  • Richard White

Fighting Inequality in the New Gilded Age

Restoring genuine democracy must go beyond campaign finance.

  • K. Sabeel Rahman

Life After Theory

Ben Lerner's new novel, 10:04.

  • Anthony Domestico

Let’s Be Real

Two books by Roxane Gay reflect on the state of feminism.

  • Lucy McKeon

An Interview with Tobias Wolff

  • Quyen Nguyen
  • Tobias Wolff

Muted Protest

  • Tobi Haslett

Measure Words

A cross-cultural reading group in Beijing

  • Drew Calvert

Righting the GOP

On Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

  • Mark Schmitt

Taking Just War Seriously in Gaza

Many more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza than Israelis. Is this, on its own, justified?

  • F. M. Kamm
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