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Where Wokeness Went Wrong
Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books
Symbolic struggles cannot be a force of resistance to the Trump administration.
Nov 13, 2025, 1:00 PM
Not for Sale
Gordon F. Sander, The New York Review of Books
President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland have caused consternation and fear among Danes and Greenlanders alike.
Nov 13, 2025, 1:00 PM
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’
Dan Kaufman, The New York Review of Books
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
Nov 13, 2025, 1:00 PM
Selling a Defective Dream
Zephyr Teachout, The New York Review of Books
How did multilevel marketing schemes come to be legal, let alone so widespread? The answer has to do with how we think of workers and how we think of consumers.
Nov 13, 2025, 1:00 PM
The Third Sovereign
Robert Sullivan, The New York Review of Books
If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.
Nov 13, 2025, 1:00 PM
Flipping Britain’s Postwar Script
Ferdinand Mount, The New York Review of Books
Understanding Britain’s postwar reforms like the National Health Service requires peering into the ‘lost world’ of wartime conservatism.
Nov 13, 2025, 1:00 PM
How the Web Was Lost
James Gleick, The New York Review of Books
The Internet was not meant to suck.
Nov 11, 2025, 1:00 PM
Falling Off the Map
Linda Kinstler, The New York Review of Books
World War I set the stage a century ago for new ways of thinking about where states come from and what happens when they disappear.
Oct 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Lingering Delusion
Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books
Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.
Oct 28, 2025, 12:00 PM
Pervasive Impunity
Cora Currier, The New York Review of Books
Rich Beck’s Homeland charts how four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.
Oct 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
Storm Warnings
Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books
The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.
Oct 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
The War Over Defense Tech
Susannah Glickman, The New York Review of Books
Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic with the title “The Defense Reformation.” “As a nation, we are in an undeclared state of emergency,” it b…
Oct 4, 2025, 3:13 PM
Algorithm Nation
Jacob Weisberg, The New York Review of Books
Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.
Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Price of Tomorrow
Geoff Mann, The New York Review of Books
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.
Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
From the Cesspool to the Mainstream
Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books
The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.
Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Massacre Under the Starry Flag
Vicente L. Rafael, The New York Review of Books
The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.
Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Big Cheese
Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books
Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon ’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of control.
Sep 30, 2025, 12:00 PM
What If We Took Democracy Seriously?
Osita Nwanevu, Nawal Arjini, The New York Review of Books
In our Fall Books issue, Osita Nwanevu reviewed Sam Tanenhaus’s doorstopper Buckley, a biography of the conservative intellectual and bon vivant remembered fondly—too fondly, Nwanevu argues—by many people appalled at the current state of argument in America. …
Sep 27, 2025, 2:30 PM
The Ayatollah’s Kingly Woe
Christopher de Bellaigue, The New York Review of Books
The Supreme Leader’s frail health and Israel’s recent attacks have left the Islamic Republic on the brink of paralysis.
Sep 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
When Trade Was at a Crossroads
E. Tammy Kim, The New York Review of Books
In 1999 the World Trade Organization gathered in Seattle to celebrate free trade. The protest that followed offers a blueprint for effective resistance to globalization at a time of renewed urgency.
Sep 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
The War App
Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books
Last year, according to a recent report in The New York Times, Alexander Karp received a total of $6.8 billion for his services as CEO of the data analytics software company Palantir Technologies. This “compensation actually paid”—a metric that takes into acc…
Sep 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Watch What You Say
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books
Fara Dabhoiwala considers the right to free speech the con at the heart of the Constitution because of the harms it permits. But what about the harms it prevents?
Sep 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Abortion’s Long History
Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books
Abortion has been an inescapable fact of life for millennia. The question is, why do women gain or lose control over their reproductive lives at different times in history?
Sep 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Nobody’s Grand Tour
Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books
Only seventy-two pages into Schattenfroh, Michael Lentz’s bleak, confounding, and finally brilliant doorstopper of a novel, the story, which had just seemed to be getting off the ground, cuts short. The type gives way to facsimile pages covered with the handw…
Sep 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
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