June 2, 2014 Issue

Cover art by: art by Doug Chayka

Editorial

The Battle of 42nd Street

The demise of the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan is the end of a Bloomberg-era castle in the sky.
Scott Sherman
After Jackson Loses Its Radical Mayor, a Movement Spreads in the South

Still mourning Chokwe Lumumba, progressives gather to push his vision for worker-owned co-ops.

Laura Flanders
Q&A With Sandra Tsing Loh on Her Provocative Theory About Menopause

Menopause isn’t “The Change,” she says. Instead, fertility is what’s unusual.

Jon Wiener
The Lewinsky Double Standard

If Monica Lewinsky were a man, she would have transcended the Clinton scandal long ago.

Michelle Goldberg
‘Brown v. Board of Education’ Didn’t End Segregation, Big Government Did

Sixty years after the decision, it’s worth remembering it took Congress to finally smash Jim Crow.

Ian Millhiser
The Trial of Cecily McMillan

Kathryn Funkhouser
5 Concrete Steps the US Can Take to End the Syria Crisis

We in civil society must sharpen our demands.

Phyllis Bennis
This Modern World

Tom Tomorrow
Snapshot: Scorched Earth Policy

Bruno Domingos

Books & the Arts

Why Has ‘My Struggle’ Been Anointed a Literary Masterpiece?

With its lack of art and absence of thought, the blockbuster Norwegian novel disappoints.

William Deresiewicz
Nobody Else Sounds Like Lydia Davis

Because nobody else thinks like her.

Alexandra Schwartz
What Was Democracy?

Democracy was once a comforting fiction. Has it become an uninhabitable one?

Thomas Meaney and Yascha Mounk
Mugwump

Sebastian Agudelo
How Tolerant Should We Be of Intolerance?

It’s one of the most ticklish questions of liberal philosophy.
Cathy Gere
Therianthrope

Sebastian Agudelo
Overculminated

In Zündel’s Exit, Markus Werner gorges on the limit point of madness.

Ricky D’Ambrose
What Is the Genus of Genius?

How the religion of genius collapsed under the blows of egalitarianism.

Warren Breckman
In Shape

Sebastian Agudelo

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