Big Germany, What Now?
The post-Wall era is over and everyone, including the Germans, is asking which way Germany—the most powerful country in the European Union—will go.
May 23, 2024 issue
Supersize That?
New supertall skyscrapers planned for Manhattan will reduce the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building to the scale of souvenir tchotchkes. With the current glut of unoccupied office space, they may be the last of their kind.
May 23, 2024 issue
‘A Long-Tongue Saga’
Over the course of more than a thousand pages, Leon Forrest’s novel Divine Days, reissued after three decades, elicits from the reader every emotion from awe to exasperation.
May 23, 2024 issue
More Real Than Life
In Jane Schoenbrun’s films, personal metamorphosis happens on both sides of the screen.
May 4, 2024
Safe Havens
The UK’s “second empire” of tax-free jurisdictions around the world persists despite the overwhelming evidence that it enables corruption, drains public budgets, and exacerbates inequality.
May 23, 2024 issue
Free from the Archives
Ronald Dworkin: On Not Prosecuting Civil Disobedience“How should the government deal with those who disobey the draft laws out of conscience? Many people think the answer is obvious: the government must prosecute the dissenters, and if they are convicted it must punish them. Some people reach this conclusion easily, because they hold the mindless view that conscientious disobedience is the same as lawlessness.”
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