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At What Cost?
Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books
New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.
Dec 25, 2025, 1:00 PM
God of the Gaps
Robert P. Baird, The New York Review of Books
Ross Douthat’s usual contrarian approach, in his recent book Believe, leads to a curiously impotent, watered-down account of religious experience.
Dec 25, 2025, 1:00 PM
Blood Work
Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books
A rare genetic mutation is best treated the nineteenth-century way, with bloodletting, showing up the strengths and weaknesses of the NHS.
Dec 25, 2025, 1:00 PM
L’Affaire Carlson
Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books
On November 5 the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, convened an uncomfortable meeting. “I made a mistake, and I let you down,” he told a hall full of the conservative think tank’s staff and fellows in a video leaked to The Washington Free B…
Dec 21, 2025, 12:00 PM
The Scramble for the Seafloor
Rebecca Egan McCarthy, The New York Review of Books
Since 1779 photosynthesis has been the standard-issue explanation for the continuation of life on earth: plants absorb sunlight, which fuels their metabolism, and create oxygen as waste. This is such basic, grade-school science that it normally wouldn’t bear …
Dec 10, 2025, 6:24 PM
A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs
A. S. Hamrah, The New York Review of Books
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also waiting for the train. I had been reading his work for many years, so I decided I would introduce myself. …
Dec 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
It’s a Racket!
Jed S. Rakoff, The New York Review of Books
Cryptocurrency has largely managed to remain free of government regulation, and as a result has often become a vehicle for fraud and criminality.
Nov 27, 2025, 1:00 PM
The Anti-Trans Playbook
Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books
The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.
Nov 27, 2025, 1:00 PM
The Plague That Won’t Die
Pria Anand, The New York Review of Books
As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.
Nov 27, 2025, 1:00 PM
Why ‘The West’?
Yuri Slezkine, The New York Review of Books
The idea of the West survived a once-shared civilization as a code for its fractious heirs. A new book suggests its enduring constants have been a fear of Russia and of internal decay.
Nov 27, 2025, 1:00 PM
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
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