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Public opinion

The Skinning Tree

by Jennifer Percy,

America’s redface problem onstage

A Play with No End

by Christopher Ketcham,

What the Gilets Jaunes really want

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,

One foreigner’s perspective

A Flag for Trump’s America

by Jeff Sharlet,

The power of strength

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,

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE

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…