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Two new books explore our growing scientific understanding of the moon as well as its powerful appeal to the imagination.
April 24, 2025 issue
Why Harvard Defied Him
How the university fares in its struggle with Donald Trump may well determine the future of academic freedom in the United States.
April 19, 2025
Spaghetti Underground
The MTA’s new redesign of the New York City subway map is the latest of many attempts to capture the sprawling network on paper.
April 18, 2025
The President of Brooklyn
The saga of Eric Adams’s mayoralty has come to epitomize the spirit of Trump’s second term—from its ethos of aggrieved narcissism to its punitive approach toward the vulnerable.
April 17, 2025
In the Cut
The painter Walter Price keeps returning to a personal lexicon of images, as if hoping both to wear them out and make them new.
April 16, 2025
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: History and National Stupidity“Sometimes, when I am particularly depressed, I ascribe our behavior to stupidity—the stupidity of our leadership, the stupidity of our culture.”
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