Politics

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Sade, Too: A New Moment for a Complex Monster
A newly translated work by the Marquis de Sade has much to say about our power-mad, wealth-saturated times.
John Galbraith SimmonsApr 1, 2020
COVID and Community
From the early days of the pandemic, Steven Shapin on the ways COVID-19 requires us to care for each other and our communities.
Steven ShapinMar 30, 2020
Climate, Commonwealth, and the Green New Deal: A Conversation with Alyssa Battistoni and Jedediah Britton-Purdy
How the Green New Deal can reshape the politics of climate catastrophe.
Wen StephensonMar 25, 2020
- Politics
- Science & Technology
Latinidad in the Age of Trump: On Ricardo Ortiz’s “Latinx Literature Now”
Renee Hudson considers Ricardo L. Ortiz's "Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event."
Renee HudsonMar 24, 2020
Reading Voltaire in Damascus?
Nile Green is enlightened by “Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates” by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab.
Nile GreenMar 23, 2020
Land of Poets and Bones: Spain’s Desmemoria
The saga of an artistic family in Franco’s Spain raises questions about reconciliation.
Jordan ElgrablyMar 22, 2020
The Feral and the Sublime: On Animals and Trees in Turkey
Birger Vanwesenbeeck takes stock of “Animals and the Environment in Turkish Culture,” a recent book by Kim Fortuny.
Birger VanwesenbeeckMar 21, 2020
Dodging the Censor
A new book about the impact of literary censorship in the long 18th century.
Jake FuchsMar 20, 2020
Number of the Beast: On Óscar and Juan José Martínez’s “The Hollywood Kid”
The rise and fall and rise again of the Salvadoran gang MS-13 is seen through the story of one of its members.
Jeff PeerMar 20, 2020
The Individual Person at the Center: An Interview with Julia Kristeva
Georges Nivat and Olivier Mongin talk to Julia Kristeva in this conversation translated by Patsy Baudoin.
Georges Nivat, Olivier Mongin, Patsy BaudoinMar 19, 2020
A Failed Case Against Free Speech
Stephen Rohde objects to “The Case Against Free Speech” by P. E. Moskowitz.
Stephen RohdeMar 17, 2020
- Law
- Politics
Radical Lives: On New Biographies of Rose Pastor Stokes and Dorothy Day
Two new biographies of early 20th-century American radical women.
Elaine MargolinMar 14, 2020