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Machine Politics

Rather than creating a more equal society, the internet has given rise to a new age of authoritarianism

The Crisis of Our Constitution

by Kevin Baker,

Lost in this past electoral season, one of the most vicious and frightening in American history, is how shaky the very foundation of our democracy is. Throughout Trump’s deformation of…

Machine Politics

by Fred Turner,

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

Donald Trump Is a Good President

by Michel Houellebecq,Translated by John Cullen,

One foreigner’s perspective

Tyranny of the Minority

by Rebecca Solnit,

Think of our democracy as a house we built in 1776, big enough only for Christian, property-owning white men. Over the next two centuries, various groups struggled to make it…

The Watchmen

by Alan Jacobs,

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

Save Our Public Universities

by Marilynne Robinson,

In defense of America’s best idea

Bombast Bursting in Air

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

The Trouble with Israel

by Bernard Avishai,

Netanyahu takes the country to the brink

In Regulation Nation

by David Graeber,

By David Graeber, from The Utopia of Rules, published last month by Melville House. Graeber is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. His most recent article for Harper’s…

Under Western Eyes

by John Gray,

By John Gray, adapted from an article in the October 2014 issue of Prospect. Gray is the author of many books, including False Dawn, Straw Dogs, and The Silence of…

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Machine Politics

The Crisis of Our Constitution

Machine Politics

Donald Trump Is a Good President

Tyranny of the Minority

The Watchmen

Save Our Public Universities

Bombast Bursting in Air

The Trouble with Israel

In Regulation Nation

Under Western Eyes

January 2015

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