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Oh, We Knew Agnew: On Spiro Agnew’s Lasting Legacy
Jerald Podair, Zach Messitte, and Charles J. Holden reconsider the legacy of Spiro Agnew.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: On Sohrab Ahmari’s “Tyranny, Inc.” and Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change”
Jodi Dean reviews Sohrab Ahmari’s “Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What To Do About It” and Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.”
Propaganda, Outrage, and Entertainment
Kathryn Cramer Brownell on the electoral transformations wrought by cable news and the evolving media landscape.
Birth Stories Are an Ideological Minefield: A Conversation with Amanda Montei
Kate Durbin speaks with author Amanda Montei about her new book “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control.”
The Deep Story Beneath the Big Lie
The engine of the right-wing movement is a narrative about social disgrace, according to Anthony Nadler and Doron Taussig.
How Could He Possibly Lose? On Samantha Barbas’s “Actual Malice”
Stephen Rohde discusses Samantha Barbas’s new book on free speech and civil rights, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in ’New York Times v. Sullivan.’”
The Handover
Jonah Siegel explores the complicated implications of repatriating art.
Espionage Overreach: On Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression”
Stephen Rohde reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.”
Gender Criticism Versus Gender Abolition: On Three Recent Books About Gender
Grace Lavery reviews Julie Bindel’s “Feminism for Women: The Real Tribute to Liberation,” Helen Joyce’s “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,” and Kathleen Stock’s “Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism.”
Red and Green Make … Degrowth: On Kohei Saito’s “Marx in the Anthropocene”
Andrew Ahern reviews Kohei Saito’s “Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism.”
Feeling Solarpunk: On Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series
Kurt David reviews Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot series, “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” and “A Psalm for the Wild-Built.”
Justice in the Age of Abolition: On Joanna Schwartz’s “Shielded”
Hector Villagra reviews Joanna Schwartz’s “Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable.”
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