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What Liu Xiaobo’s Death Says About China’s Two Futures
China’s president has crafted an increasingly progressive image for himself abroad, while stifling dissent at home.
Gina Anne Tam and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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June 13, 2017
What Caused the Russian Revolution?
How historians narrate 1917 tells us as much about their politics as it does about what we can learn from the revolution’s failures.
Sophie Pinkham
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June 1, 2017
Diana Trilling’s Discontents
To keep up with the New York Intellectuals, Diana Trilling forgot—and forgave—nothing.
Vivian Gornick
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April 21, 2017
Could Leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon Win the French Presidency?
Communism may be dead, but the struggle against capital has taken on new life in France.
Paul Cohen
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March 27, 2017
What ‘The New York Times’ Missed In Its Piece about Norman Podhoretz
The profile failed to mention the larger historical context in which the former Commentary editor and his contemporaries operated.
Norman Birnbaum
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February 8, 2017
Marx’s Revenge
He may have lived a 19th-century life, but his ideas keep coming back with a vengeance.
Benjamin Kunkel
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January 9, 2017
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January 9, 2017
A Lesson on How to Survive Trumpism—From the McCarthy Era
Trump’s regime will not resurrect full-blown McCarthyism, but it may take lessons in political repression from it.
Ellen Schrecker
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January 6, 2017
Trump Is Threatening to Roll Back Normalization With Cuba—Here’s What’s at Stake
Obama’s Cuba policy opened a new era of peaceful coexistence. Can it survive President Trump?
Peter Kornbluh
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December 13, 2016
Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory
A shadowy new Professor Watchlist has revived the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s. We must fight back.
Erik Loomis