Toward a New Realism
Rachel Cusk’s latest experiment with the novel seems too influenced by a style of abstraction she deployed more successfully in her Outline trilogy.
November 21, 2024 issue
Letting It All Hang Out
Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.
November 7, 2024
All Bets Are Off
“The Democrats must do everything in their power and influence to oppose, slow down, and attach political costs to the Trump agenda.”
November 9, 2024
The Return of Trump—I
On losers, fear, the Supreme Court, the end of the FDR era, antisystemic times, and words without consequences.
November 8, 2024
The Return of Trump—II
On Gaza, trade, con men, sinking feelings, the federal workforce, and “Brexit plus plus plus.”
November 9, 2024
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Christopher R. Browning: The Suffocation of Democracy“As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.”
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