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PETA Peeve

From a complaint filed in June against the State of North Carolina by PETA and other plaintiffs, including Beth A. Sparks, an adviser to the National Opossum Society who “has…

Object Lesson

by Christopher Bollas,

From When the Sun Bursts, by Christopher Bollas, out this month from Yale University Press. Bollas has been a practicing psychoanalyst for more than forty years.

A Mountain of Salt, 2005

by Wim Wenders,

Perversion Therapy

From testimony given by Benjamin Unger, a plaintiff in Ferguson v. JONAH and one of five former clients of JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing) who filed a lawsuit…

Joshua Tree National Park #2

by Ken Kitano,

Selfie Styx

From news reports of injuries and deaths since 2014 that occurred during attempts to take selfies.

Bombast Bursting in Air

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

The New China Syndrome

by Barry C. Lynn,

American business meets its new master

Lost Girls

by Sarah Dohrmann,

Women, sex, and the Arab Spring

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

The universe is still dying but Earth is not, after all, about to run out of helium. The planet was found to have 3 trillion trees, not 400 billion; humanity was found…