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Archive: 2018

The Future of Queer

A manifesto

The Castro

It was no coincidence that homosexuals migrated to San Francisco in the Seventies, for the city was famed as a playful place, more Catholic than Protestant in its eschatological intuition.…

Swap Meet

by Andrew Cockburn,

Wall Street’s war on the Volcker Rule

The Newlyweds

by Mansi Choksi,

What’s at stake when you marry for love?

Walk the Line

by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro,

The unlikely origins of the US-Mexico border

Body Politic

by Sarah Aziza,

Saudi women push for the right to exercise

The Human Factor

by John R. MacArthur, Ludvík Vaculík,

How I learned the real meaning of dissent

Munich, 1938

by Robert Harris,

The Regina Palast was an immense, monumental gray stone cube of a hotel, built in 1908, with Versailles-style reception rooms, a Turkish bath in the basement, and three hundred bedrooms…

New Books

by Lidija Haas,

Close your eyes and picture the American dream. At the turn of the millennium, Mokhtar Alkhanshali, the scion of Yemeni immigrants, is growing up in a tiny one-bedroom San Francisco…

After the Revolution

by Yasmine Seale,

Three novels of Egypt’s repressive present

Mr. Mailer Goes to Washington

by David Denby,

The Armies of the Night fifty years on

Combination Lock

by Richard E. Maltby Jr.,

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Psychopathy may be an evolutionary complement to altruism in that it allows one group member to sacrifice another for the greater good. People who feel they are disadvantaged are likelier…