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Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests
In the eighth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Pepper Stetler explores the troubling history of IQ tests and special education.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
A Total Assault on the University
James Chandler argues that claims of combating antisemitism are a bogus rationale for the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on universities, from 2017 to the present.
Listening to the Nonhuman World: On Including Other Life-Forms in Politics
In this first of a two-part essay, Jonathan Blake considers recent books on the political rights of nonhuman beings.
How Librarians Found Themselves on the Front Line of the Culture War
Melina Moe considers Amanda Jones’s “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.”
You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Chains: A May Day Reading List
In celebration of May Day, LARB probes the archives for illuminating essays and interviews on the history of workers, their rights, and the challenges they face for their futures.
The World of Yesterday, Today
Tim Brinkhof considers the relevance of Stefan Zweig’s 1942 autobiography for our own authoritarian times.
“We’re All Chinese, Aren’t We?”
Jessie Lau ponders Emily Feng’s “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China.”
Player One and Main Character
Gideon Jacobs considers what Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as odd couple in chief, have in common.
i am elsewhere
Godelieve de Bree considers Hasib Hourani’s “rock flight.”
Disturbers of the Peace
Jeffrey C. Isaac sees modern American parallels in Benjamin Nathan's book about Soviet dissidents.
Basic Stuff About Reality
Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews David Roediger’s “An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education.”
Is the Media Alright?
LARB Radio Hour presents excerpts from the February 2025 live discussion and podcast taping on the current challenges facing the media.
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