You Will Have to Make Sacrifices to Save the Planet
When it comes to climate change, Washington Governor Jay Inslee is unlike any other Democrat running for president. He’s based his entire campaign on addressing the crisis, and his climate plan is the...
View ArticleThe Failure to Define Fascism Today
“You can’t define it as good or bad,” Caio Mussolini, great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, told reporters on May 8, discussing fascism during his run for the European Parliament....
View ArticleDo Democrats Actually Want to Make Drugs Cheaper?
A study published Friday in JAMA Network Open on the prices of brand-name drugs found those costs to be constantly rising, often with an insolent disregard for received economic wisdom. The authors,...
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Choose Your Own Family
Revolutionaries have long wanted to abolish the family. Marx didn’t see it surviving the eradication of capitalism. The radical feminist Shulamith Firestone viewed it as the root of all gendered...
View ArticleA Better Way to Fix the Supreme Court
What should be done about the Supreme Court? Liberals, still seething after the Merrick Garland blockade and Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, are bracing for imminent defeats from the Roberts Court on...
View ArticleThe Sum of All Beards
“Saigon … shit. I’m still only in Saigon,” says a scruffy, broken Capt. Benjamin Willard, peering out through slatted window blinds while on the violent bender that opens Apocalypse Now. “Every time I...
View ArticleBooksmart Deserved Better
In the opening scene of Booksmart, a winsome comedy about two try-hards who set out to prove they can have fun on the eve of their high school graduation, Molly (Beanie Feldstein) wakes in the...
View ArticleThe State That Liberal Dreams Are Made Of
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak received national attention last week for vetoing a bill aimed at reforming the Electoral College. State lawmakers approved a measure that would have added Nevada to the...
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David Brooks’s Moral Journey
David Brooks is an easy character to dislike. In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, he concocted ethnographies of the habits of conservative voters to tell a story about cultural divisions and...
View ArticleTariffs Are a Bad Response to an Imaginary Border Crisis
Donald Trump won the presidency–despite losing the popular vote by 2.8 million—with a campaign that careened wildly from one distraction to another. He has clung to this as a Twitter and governing...
View ArticleTwo Fronts: Normandy and England
I have just returned from a visit to the American-held sector of the Normandy coast, a week after I saw it captured. Now in London, I admire the cool courage of the English civilians, once more...
View ArticleD-Day
I. In the Channel Britain’s reaction to the invasion has been one of elation mixed with anxiety. Britain has been in the war and subject to war nerves two years longer than the United States. She is...
View ArticleThe End of the German Myth
No one can doubt that when the Allied soldiers went ashore on the coast of France on the morning of June 6, the last phase of the war began. In all probability it will still be long and bloody; indeed,...
View ArticleAustralia’s Media Raids and the Decline of Press Freedom Worldwide
Americans with insomnia and a Twitter account may have seen a disturbing sight on Tuesday night. Half a world away, the Australian Federal Police, the country’s equivalent of the FBI, raided the...
View ArticleThe College Board Hopes to Profit from “Adversity”
Is the College Board #woke now? Formed over a century ago with the mission of expanding college access, the Board is today best known as the developer of standardized tests—the most famous of which is...
View ArticleThe Outlaw World of Deadwood
On the set of Deadwood: The Movie—a new, 110-minute conclusion to the HBO series—the show’s creator, David Milch, read Robert Penn Warren poems to the cast. Warren was Milch’s writing teacher when he...
View ArticleIs There a Right Way to Cover the Trump White House?
How should reporters cover the White House? Case study number one could be reporter Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, whose work has, during the Trump years, been particularly fraught. Her...
View ArticleThis Is Really Happening
Such an odd cloud overcame the nation at that time.A damp breeze and, where a storm should be,defiance. In it, the litter of scorched marigoldsfidgeted on the ground against my feet. My fistsstill...
View ArticleLonging Explained by William James
I know the color blue when I see it, and the flavor ofa pear when I taste it ... but about the inner natureof these facts ... I can say nothing at all. — W.J. Pears will come to you if you are...
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Aleksandar Hemon’s Lost Eden
There are writers who specialize in variety, flitting from genre to genre and reinventing themselves with every book. Then there are those who worry the same subject over and over again, as if every...
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