Letters From the February 8/15, 2021, Issue Letters From the February 8/15, 2021, Issue
No hope or change… An open question… It’s time… Fly high, comrade… Higher math…
Jan 26, 2021 / Our Readers
Rounding Up the Capitol-Mob Lawbreakers Rounding Up the Capitol-Mob Lawbreakers
Their faces were there in the picture ID was the simplest of tasks. They shouldn’t have scorned Dr. Fauci For saying we must wear our masks.
Jan 26, 2021 / Column / Calvin Trillin
How Will Capitalism End? How Will Capitalism End?
Both the origins and the death of our economic system has become an almost intractable riddle for theorists to solve.
Jan 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Luban
We Balk at ‘Law and Order,’ but Democracy Needs the Rule of Law We Balk at ‘Law and Order,’ but Democracy Needs the Rule of Law
The preservation of our liberties has always depended more on habit than on compulsion.
Jan 25, 2021 / Column / David Bromwich
The Worldmaking of N.K. Jemisin The Worldmaking of N.K. Jemisin
Through her speculative fiction, Jemisin builds worlds and probes them—exploring who they work for and how.
Jan 25, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
The Interior Lives of the Transnational Asian Diaspora The Interior Lives of the Transnational Asian Diaspora
Sheung-King’s novel is rooted in a world that is disinterested in the white gaze and imagines a different kind of diasporic fiction.
Jan 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Thea Lim
When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow
By making health care broadly available, the government helps ensure our freedom.
Jan 19, 2021 / Mike Konczal
Alliance Between Vigilantes and Law Enforcement: A US Tradition Alliance Between Vigilantes and Law Enforcement: A US Tradition
On the continuity between the early-20th-century American Protective League and today’s violent “patriots.”
Jan 19, 2021 / R.H. Lossin
Who Voted for Hitler? Who Voted for Hitler?
Just as there are myths about Trump voters, there are damaging misconceptions about who brought the Nazis to power.
Jan 15, 2021 / Dan Simon