‘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
‘Give Me Joy’
Madonna’s genius is not just for controversy, or for pressing on the fissures in femininity, or for her bold support of once-unpopular causes. It is for doing it all with no apology.
May 23, 2024 issue
The Whistleblower We Deserve
The ambiguous hero of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People is a man of science who insists on the primacy of truth and evidence. But he’s also, possibly, a bit of a fascist.
May 23, 2024 issue
Dr. B
Jill Biden is a barrier-breaking national figure. What are we to make of the wholesome, at times bland story she tells about herself?
May 23, 2024 issue
The Immunity Con
For the first time in American history, the supreme judicial authority is parsing how much criminality to permit the chief executive.
May 1, 2024
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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