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What Is Hope for?
The term “human rights” sounds like a universal good, but it has a surprisingly contentious backstory.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Dystopian Bodies: Barbara Ehrenreich Attacks the Epidemic of Wellness
As Ehrenreich finds, not only is the science of wellness dubious, but its systems of self-control (like dieting) also reify class and gender hierarchies.
Not Raging Against the Dying of the Light
A sharp critique of the anti-aging industry from a keen observer of American flim-flam.
Reasonableness Without Reasons: Yascha Mounk’s “The People vs. Democracy”
Is populism a reaction against oligarchy, or is it part of the oligarchic plan?
Totalitarian Politics Are Local
A flawed but spirited attempt to develop a grand theory of the 21st-century autocratic revival.
From Nixon to Trump: Metastases of Cultural Power
Carl Freedman examines the cultural power dynamics that link Nixon and Trump.
Awaiting the Prophet: On Jonah Goldberg’s “Suicide of the West”
David Wolpe critiques “Suicide of the West,” a jeremiad by Jonah Goldberg.
An Imagined Insurgency: A Conversation with Bernard E. Harcourt
A law professor argues that counterinsurgency is no longer a temporary emergency measure but a permanent state of being.
Is Your Job a Bunch of B.S.?
Most corporate jobs exist not to create anything meaningful but to go through expected rituals. And most people know this instinctually.
The New Primitives
Primitivism is back, not that it ever left. Ben Etherington on the historical and contemporary notions of primitivism.
Higher Loyalty? James Comey and the Failure of Leadership
Unintentionally, "A Higher Loyalty" teaches us more about “ethical leadership” by showing not what Comey has done in his career but what he has failed to do.
A Chameleonic Career
A new book on California’s youngest and oldest governor.
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