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physicists say we change an object simply by turning our attention to it—really I am a grandson only when we are eating at Panera—one of us is lying always about her particular hu…
Jul 2, 2019 / Books & the Arts / TC Tolbert
The Use and Abuse of International Law in the Occupied Territories The Use and Abuse of International Law in the Occupied Territories
Noura Erakat’s new book examines the legal arguments used to justify Israel's occupation—and the legal arguments that might have been used to counter it.
Jul 1, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh
The Philosophical Origins of Patriarchy The Philosophical Origins of Patriarchy
Plato, Hippocrates, and Aristotle laid the foundations on which centuries of sexism were built.
Jul 1, 2019 / Christia Mercer
It Doesn’t Matter Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall It Doesn’t Matter Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall
Infighting over ownership of the riots obscures their significance as a messy, spontaneous, diverse rebellion.
Jun 30, 2019 / Morgan M. Page
Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z
Meet Brud, the secretive tech start-up here to outfit corporations with fashionable social causes—through elaborate CGI fiction.
Jun 28, 2019 / Emmeline Clein
In Honor of the People Who Have Bled for Our Desire In Honor of the People Who Have Bled for Our Desire
On Stonewall at 50.
Jun 28, 2019 / Diana Oh
Puzzle No. 3503 Puzzle No. 3503
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Viciously beat staff, incorporating a way to learn: It’s good for you, supposedly (4-8) 9 Failing dandy invested i…
Jun 27, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
What We All Owe to Gay Liberation What We All Owe to Gay Liberation
Stonewall shows us what fighting back looked like in an era when state power was hostile.
Jun 27, 2019 / Emily Douglas and The Nation
Alan Brinkley’s Visions of Liberalism Alan Brinkley’s Visions of Liberalism
The central preoccupations of his life and historical work—the strengths, limits, and vulnerabilities of 20th-century liberalism—are still at the center of debate today.
Jun 27, 2019 / Eric Foner
Ann Quin’s Surrealist Novel ‘Berg’ Annihilates All Expectation Ann Quin’s Surrealist Novel ‘Berg’ Annihilates All Expectation
The newly reissued 1964 book is a hallucinatory mix of crime fiction, vaudeville, and modernist experimentation.
Jun 26, 2019 / Shane Anderson