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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
How to Blow Up a Planet
Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books
What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared transformative future since the early 1980s. Around the world, in party manifestos, inaugural speeches, …
Sep 4, 2025, 12:00 PM
Conservatism’s Baton Twirler
Osita Nwanevu, The New York Review of Books
No one will ever write a biography of consequence about Rich Lowry. While remembrances of William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review, often speak of the void in conservative commentary he left behind upon his death in 2008, few of them hazard to a…
Sep 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Father Knows Best
Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books
An aristocrat who goes in for democracy is irresistible. —Dostoevsky Anyone around and alert during the Long Sixties knows the type. The scion of a wealthy family who gives his fortune to revolutionaries and for his trouble is electrocuted while planting a bo…
Sep 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Killing the Moonlight
Alexander Stille, The New York Review of Books
Electric light, the telephone, radio, the automobile, the movie camera, the airplane: the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth were a blur of technological innovation. In Italy, a provincial, largely agrarian country only …
Aug 24, 2025, 9:13 AM
Weaponizing the Watchdog
Walter M. Shaub Jr., The New York Review of Books
Donald Trump’s fascist takeover of government is a comprehensive affair, and sometimes it’s the little things that reveal just how thoroughly his administration has been dismantling our democratic infrastructure. On June 16 Trump nominated the thirty-year-old…
Aug 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
The Twilight Zone
Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books
Laila Lalami’s prescient new novel follows a woman imprisoned by the government for her dreams.
Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Contradictory Revolution
David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books
Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of American Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.
Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 PM
After Resettlement
Caroline Moorehead, The New York Review of Books
How has a group of Liberian refugees, resettled in the US nearly twenty-five years ago after fleeing civil war, fared in a country that has changed vastly since admitting them?
Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 PM
Romania’s Split Identity
Costică Brădăţan, The New York Review of Books
Romania’s divided loyalties between East and West help explain how a nerdy Sorbonne-educated mathematician was elected president.
Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 PM
Umpires No More
David Cole, The New York Review of Books
At his confirmation hearings in 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts famously compared judges to umpires. “It’s my job to call balls and strikes,” he said. “Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.” It’s not clear that anyone ever really bought the analogy,…
Jul 29, 2025, 12:00 PM
Lights Out
Jonathan Mingle, The New York Review of Books
For anyone concerned that the world is hurtling toward three degrees of warming by the end of the century—a future described as “hellish” by the UN secretary general—there is one useful byproduct of the budget reconciliation bill the Republican Party scramble…
Jul 20, 2025, 11:00 AM
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