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Is Liberalism Worth Saving?

by Patrick J. Deneen , Francis Fukuyama , Deirdre Nansen McCloskey , Cornel West ,

The future of an ideal

Sweet Om Alabama

From emails sent to Alabama state representative Jeremy Gray regarding a bill to legalize the practice of yoga in K–12 schools, which was banned in 1993. I have only done…

The New New Testament

From an account of John 8:3–11 in a law-and-ethics textbook published by the Chinese Communist Party. In the Gospel, a group of Pharisees have gathered to stone a woman accused…

The Trouble with Angels

by Eliot Weinberger ,

From Angels & Saints, which was published last month by New Directions. Surprisingly little was originally known about the angels. They are mentioned fewer than two hundred times in the…

Shaking with Fear

From a verbal report given by Harold Howard to Kurt Castaldo, a deputy in the sheriff’s office in Palm Beach County, Florida, in December 2015. Howard alleged that Yousef Muslet…

Miami

by Edwidge Danticat ,

On May 13, 2017, I was standing on the back of a pickup truck and addressing a couple hundred or so protesters gathered in front of the Miami field office…

A Matter of Life

by Mary Cuddehe ,

The death penalty as a conservative conundrum

The Priest in the Trees

by Fred Bahnson ,

Feral faith in the age of climate change

Slow Feud

by Kimberly Davis , Shawn Musgrave ,

From messages between Shawn Musgrave, a reporter for MuckRock.com, and Kimberly Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who defied an August 2015 court order to issue marriage licenses to…

Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism

by Elisabeth Sherman ,

Jennifer Percy on lyricism in nonfiction, the demons of American veterans, and circumventing expected narratives of PTSD

L’amour filial

by Charlotte Brontë , Translated by Sue Lonoff de Cuevas ,

By Charlotte Brontë, from an essay written while she was a twenty-six-year-old student at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. The essay, dated August 5, 1842, was discovered last year in…