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Stonewalled

From a June 30, 1987, memo to President Ronald Reagan from Gary L. Bauer, Reagan’s chief domestic policy adviser. In July of 1987, Reagan appointed Frank Lilly, an openly gay…

Carbon Footprint

by John R. MacArthur, Robert A. Caro,

From a conversation between Robert Caro and John R. MacArthur, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The Power Broker, Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, which won the Pulitzer…

A Selection of Employee Badges

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

Crooked Timber

by Stuart Franklin,

W. Eugene Smith, Josef Sudek, and humanist photography

Camelot Revisited

by Henry Fairlie,

We engage in political activity so that we may, as societies of men, deal with the world as it is. This is not a slight endeavor; the world as it…

Briefly Noted

by Rona Levin,

From entries in Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past, by Rona Levin, a collection of British newspaper articles published this month by the British Library.

Body Count

by Alexander Kluge,Translated by Martin Chalmers,

By Alexander Kluge, from Air Raid, an account of the destruction of Halberstadt, Germany, by American bomber squadrons on April 8, 1945, out this month from Seagull Books. Kluge is…

The Other Zionism

by I. F. Stone,

The main current of Zionism has always nourished itself on the illusions that the Jews were “a people without a land” returning to “a land without a people.” But there…

The Tale of the Tape

by Lili Anolik,

The miracle of Straight Life

Page Turner

by John Crowley,

The time is close at hand when the scattered members of the civilized communities will be as closely united, as far as instant telephonic communication is concerned, as the various…

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