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Losing My Religion

by Kevin Baker,

In the Seventies, when I came of age politically, being a lefty was all about believing that “the people” would always save us, if they just knew the truth. We…

Whiteout

by Kevin Baker,

This past spring and summer, political correctness—perhaps inevitably—took a full turn and became a campaign to erase the worst things that dead white men have done in our history. This…

Power of Attorney

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can progressive prosecutors achieve meaningful criminal-justice reform?

Pinball Wizard

by Greg Bottoms,

From Lowest White Boy, published in May by West Virginia University Press. He lumbered around a friend’s neighborhood on the other side of the city, slow and friendly, a 250-pound…

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…

The Gatekeepers

by Harper’s Magazine,

Unknown knowns: the limits of racial discourse in a system almost exclusively controlled by white people

The Gatekeepers

by Mychal Denzel Smith,

On the burden of the black public intellectual

Among Britain’s Anti-Semites

by Tanya Gold,

The Labour Party’s Moral Dilemma

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Facing the Furies

by Rebecca Solnit,

In 1979, a catchy Kenny Rogers song called “Coward of the County” made it to the top of the country charts. It’s about a man named Tommy, whose father, a…

Mourning in America

by James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

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Losing My Religion

Whiteout

Power of Attorney

Pinball Wizard

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

The Gatekeepers

The Gatekeepers

Among Britain’s Anti-Semites

The Minds of Others

Facing the Furies

Mourning in America

January 2017

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