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A Peculiar Virtue

by Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson,

Only once have we elected a really ignorant man to the Presidency. Andrew Jackson was almost completely innocent of book-learning when he came to the White House. Furthermore, he was…

The Monument Wars

by Rebecca Solnit,

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…

The Shaming of The Shrew

by Dubravka Ugresic,

By Dubravka Ugrešic, from an essay that was published in the September/October issue of World Literature Today. Ugrešic is the author of more than a dozen books. She was the…

Over the River

by Richard Manning,

Returning home to Flint

The Lords of Lambeau

by Austin Smith,

On family, fate, and Packers football

Standing Rock Speaks

by Walter Kirn,

Only as a story will this make sense. One morning in August, craving company, I walked around the corner from my apartment in Livingston, Montana, and sat down at the…

The New Red Scare

by Andrew Cockburn,

Reviving the art of threat inflation

The Hamilton Cult

by Robert Sullivan,

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

Giantess

by Rebecca Solnit,

The radical is so often imagined as the marginal that sometimes the truly subversive escapes detection just by showing up in a tuxedo instead of a T-shirt or a ski…

The Key to All Anthologies

by Jack Lynch,

From a list of reference books published worldwide since 1793, compiled by Jack Lynch, a professor at Rutgers University, Newark. Lynch’s most recent book, You Could Look It Up, was…

Only an Apocalypse Can Save Us Now

by Mark Lilla,

On the politics of nostalgia