Philanthrocapitalism: A Self-Love Story

Why do super-rich activists mock their critics instead of listening to them?

David Rieff

Has Child Protective Services Gone Too Far?

A debate sparked by the free-range parenting movement has drawn attention to the threats and intrusions poor, minority families have long endured.

Michelle Goldberg

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Is a Global Crisis. Why Are We Doing So Little to Fight It?

In a co-epidemic with HIV, it’s raging across much of the world, killing an estimated 2.6 million people in 2013.

Douglas Foster

Why Has Criticism of the Whitney Been Unmoored?

It shouldn’t be surprising that the museum’s new building looks most like… a building.

Michael Sorkin

A Stage Across the Sea

An unjustly-neglected Libyan novelist captured the twisted logic of colonialism, past and present.

Ursula Lindsey

Literature as Map to Liberty

In John Keene’s ambitious new volume of stories, resistance is required because exile isn’t an option.

Ben Ehrenreich

The Truth Behind the Televised Lie

From the creators of The Matrix, the new Netflix show Sense8 inadvertently tells the saddest story in the world.

Joshua Clover

Memphis

Paul Muldoon