Public opinion

The Skinning Tree

By Jennifer Percy,

America’s redface problem onstage

A Play with No End

By Christopher Ketcham,

When I caught up with the Gilets Jaunes on March 2, near the Jardin du Ranelagh, they were moving in such a mass through the streets that all traffic had…

Freedom from Inspiration

By Kevin Baker,

The fight over which of our public monuments should remain where they are is as complicated as the American past they commemorate. For all the fighting over who and what…

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

By Lionel Shriver,

I have a new fear. And this one’s a doozy. I write a fortnightly column for the British barely right-of-center magazine (that’s left-of-center, in the United States) The Spectator. Having…

Donald Trump Is a Good President

By Michel Houellebecq, Translated by John Cullen

In all sincerity, I like Americans a lot; I’ve met many lovely people in the United States, and I empathize with the shame many Americans (and not only “New York…

A Flag for Trump’s America

By Jeff Sharlet,

1. One day near the end of 2014, a nineteen-year-old white University of Michigan student named Andrew Jacob was sitting in his dorm, thinking about the police. All he seemed…

Forget About It

By Corey Robin,

In the uneasy months following 9/11, the Bush Administration provoked a minor controversy when it announced the name of a new office dedicated to protecting the United States from terrorism…

“I am Here Only for Working”

By William T. Vollmann,

But the exercise of labor is the worker’s own life-activity, the manifestation of his own life. . . . He works in order to live. He does not even reckon…

Preaching to The Choir

By Rebecca Solnit,

Once, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked…

The Spaceship and the Moose

By Walter Kirn,

A dozen of us sat and stood around the campfire, guests at a lodge in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. My wife and I were there to hike and sleep and celebrate…

Mr. Jones and Me

By T. Phillip Madison,

From a survey in which participants were asked to rank their agreement with statements about Alex Jones, the host of the right-wing talk show Infowars, from “never” to “all the…

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