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Kurt Vonnegut sought to fool us with his eyes wide open.

On its fiftieth anniversary, the founding declaration of SDS echoes today in democracy movements around the world.

Ever since 1991, Russians have been looking to the Soviet past for comfort and pride.

Charles Taylor is a sadly endangered type: the philosopher-statesman.

How racism, global economics, and the New Jim Crow fuel black America’s crippling jobs crisis.

Scientists, Sam Harris writes, are the saints of circumspection. If that’s true, then with his writing on religion and morality Harris breaks the mold.
 

In The Clash of Images Abdelfattah Kilito creates a touching portrait of a young man coming of age in French-occupied Morocco.

Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?

Indifference and suspicion might be as much to blame as authoritarianism for Russia's lack of democracy. That's why an uptick in local-level civic engagement is welcome news.

How did craft become a calling that dare not speak its name?