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This Is What the Founding Fathers Wanted This Is What the Founding Fathers Wanted

Just another day of wrecking America for fun and profit.

Dec 15, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow

How has Religious Experience Changed in a Secular Age?

How has Religious Experience Changed in a Secular Age? How has Religious Experience Changed in a Secular Age?

A new book by Tara Isabella Burton explores how people are infusing new cultural forms with quasi-religious meaning.

Dec 15, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Serenade Behind a Floating Stage

Serenade Behind a Floating Stage Serenade Behind a Floating Stage

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Dec 15, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Shangyang Fang

Theodor Adorno and the Crises of Liberalism

Theodor Adorno and the Crises of Liberalism Theodor Adorno and the Crises of Liberalism

At the center of Adorno’s work was a reminder that fascist movements are not exceptional to liberal democracy but signs of its failure.

Dec 15, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon

Trump and Pardons

Trump and Pardons Trump and Pardons

The power to pardon is something he likes. It makes him feel king-like and strong. It’s lucky his kids and his cronies include So many who’ve done something wrong.

Dec 15, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin

How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?

How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System? How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?

Sara Mayeux’s new history highlights how without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness befo...

Dec 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Clair

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike Lightning Strike

A movement called the Women’s Strike has been drawing hundreds of thousands of people to protest drastic abortion restrictions in Poland in recent months.

Dec 14, 2020 / OppArt / Various Contributors

Hinch-22

Hinch-22 Hinch-22

Bilgewater on back order. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of December 7.

Dec 11, 2020 / Steve Brodner

Bob Dylan at Montfort Hall, Leicester (U.K.) in 1965.

How Bob Dylan Wrote the Second Great American Songbook How Bob Dylan Wrote the Second Great American Songbook

The sale of the singer-songwriter’s catalogue is a reminder of his massive cultural legacy.

Dec 11, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Sea of Plastic

Sea of Plastic Sea of Plastic

The deep impact of the climate crisis.

Dec 11, 2020 / OppArt / Gio

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