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Kipling in Langley
Was the CIA more a product of the 19th-century Great Game than the 20th-century Cold War? Greg Barnhisel reviews “The CIA: An Imperial History” by Hugh Wilford.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
American Mythology
Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology? Tom Zoellner looks at “A Great Disorder” by Richard Slotkin.
Bourgeois Dreams, Black Rebellion
In an excerpt from “The Black Utopians,” Aaron Robertson writes on the early years of Albert Cleage Jr. and Detroit’s Black bourgeoisie.
Why Don’t We Know Who Bombed Nashville?
Who pulled off the unsolved bombings in Nashville? Jane Marcellus reviews “Dynamite Nashville” by Betsy Phillips, which advances an intriguing possibility.
The DNA Dreams of the New Eugenics
In the fourth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Patricia Williams explores how “new-genics” projects encode social bias.
Coercion
In an excerpt from “By the Fire We Carry,” Rebecca Nagle explores the concept of “allotment”—and its repercussions.
When Art Evolves, We Evolve
Brendan Riley reviews Cisco Bradley’s “The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront.”
Stupidity for Dummies
Aaron Schuster explores the intersection of Flaubert, language, and ChatGPT in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Slavery’s Tortured Figure
J. R. Kerr-Ritchie reviews Randy M. Browne’s “The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery.”
The Editor Is Willing to Buy the Manuscript
Timo Schaefer reviews Mateo Jarquín’s “The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History.”
From Circle to Square
Benjamin Nathans revisits the 1968 suppression of the Prague Spring from the perspective of the Soviet dissident movement.
What Should We Remember About the 1960s?
Charles J. Holden reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin’s memoir, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”
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