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American Mythology
Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology? Tom Zoellner looks at “A Great Disorder” by Richard Slotkin.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The Most Moral Army
Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their genocide in Gaza.
The Inconvenient Scholarship of Kevin Roberts
Samuel G. Freedman traces the long and contradictory intellectual journey of the man behind Project 2025.
How Democrats Can Win Back Rural America
Tom Zoellner searches for solutions to the Democratic Party’s “rural problem.”
The Dark Shadow of the Chinese Dream
Sasha Karsavina examines Mingwei Song’s “Fear of Seeing” and the first two books of Han Song’s “Hospital” trilogy.
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.
A Gospel of Violence
Andrew DeCort reviews Tom Gardner’s “The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia.”
Gathering Intelligence: Chelsea Manning, the War on Terror, and the Trans Internet
Charlie Markbreiter analyzes Chelsea Manning as era-defining symbol, internet darling, and enemy of the state, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Security Theater
Adam Straus reviews Richard Beck’s “Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life.”
Totalitarian Gigantomania
Tim Brinkhof explores the poetics and politics of the cruise-ship essay.
Breeding for IQ
Emily R. Klancher Merchant examines the growing enthusiasm among tech elites for genetically engineering their children, in the third essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series.
Election Desk 2024: Unquiet Spirits
Heather Kenny takes the temperature around the DNC in the first dispatch from LARB’s Election Desk.
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