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The Hamilton Cult

by Robert Sullivan,

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

The Old Man

by David Means,

A writer remembers his father

Left of Bernie

by Garret Keizer,

You say you want a revolution

The Ultimate Terrorist Factory

by Scott Sayare,

Are French prisons incubating extremism?

Church Going

by Garry Wills,

From The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis, by Garry Wills, out this month from Viking. Wills holds the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair at Emory and is…

High Concept

by Hans Ulrich Obrist,

From Ways of Curating, by Hans Ulrich Obrist, out this month from Faber and Faber. Obrist is the codirector of exhibitions and programs and of international projects at the Serpentine…

Future as Parable

by John Crowley,

By John Crowley, from a lecture delivered in June at MoMA PS1 as part of Triple Canopy’s Speculations (“The future is ”) series. Crowley’s article “Madame and the Masters” appeared…

A Kangaroo in Obama’s Court

by Lawrence Douglas,Art by Steve Mumford,

Will the Guantánamo tribunal execute a man we tortured?

A Different Kind of Father

by Jonathan Franzen,

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…

Poetry Slam

by Mark Edmundson,

Or, The decline of American verse

Plaque Ops

by Russell Mokhiber,

The corporate conquest of a labor-relations school