
Speed Up the Breakdown
The future of the government depends on how far the DOGE dynamo spins.
February 15, 2025
Patriarchal Bargains
In her long-out-of-print study of conservative gender politics, Andrea Dworkin reflected on how right-wing women seek safety and status within a movement that demeans them.
February 26, 2025
Authoritarian Blitz
The Republican Party’s attempts to suspend the rule of law can only be stopped if Democratic leaders show the moral clarity and political courage of a normal party of opposition.
February 25, 2025
The Price of American ‘Safety’
A number of new books recount the horror America created and then left in Afghanistan. Can anyone grasp the realities of occupation and the “war on terror” if they haven’t been on their receiving end?
March 13, 2025 issue
The Wrong War on the War on Drugs
The war on drugs has failed, but so has the constitutional counteroffensive in the courts. What should reformers do instead?
March 13, 2025 issue
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V. S. Pritchett: The Humming Poet“And there is the other Pepys, who came back home every night to write his secret diary by candlelight, and stopped only nine years later because he feared he was going blind. The Puritan had lapsed young, although he cheered when he went to see the execution of Charles I. He seems always to have been a curious witness of executions.”
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