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Gender and Sexuality December 1, 2016
Letters From the December 19-26, 2016, Issue
Return of the repressed… Book therapy… Happily enough ever after… Dylan revisited… Bentham’s revenge…
Our Readers and Samuel Moyn
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Biography November 2, 2016
Freud’s Discontents
Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?
Samuel Moyn
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Philosophy November 5, 2015
The Beauty and the Costs of Extreme Altruism
What if you were so troubled by suffering and inequality that you changed your life entirely?
Samuel Moyn
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History January 21, 2015
Bonfire of the Humanities
Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
Samuel Moyn
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History August 12, 2014
The Burkean Regicide
Does David Bromwich’s idea of a Burkean left amount to anything more than contempt for Obama?
Samuel Moyn
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Language Arts October 16, 2013
Dignity’s Due
Why are philosophers invoking the notion of human dignity to revitalize theories of political ethics?
Samuel Moyn
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March 12, 2013
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Covert Ops February 5, 2013
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry
How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.
Samuel Moyn
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History November 7, 2012
Totalitarianism, Famine and Us
Have histories of famines caused by totalitarianism become a distraction to the new politics of hunger?
Samuel Moyn
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May 15, 2012