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
In Harvard Yard
Civil discourse and critical inquiry are not abstract concepts in the encampment. They are active principles.
May 8, 2024
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
How Bondage Built the Church
Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance.
May 23, 2024 issue
Transatlantic Flights
The collected poems of Denise Levertov and Anne Stevenson suggest what a poet can gain by expatriation, in both directions between England and the United States.
May 23, 2024 issue
Nathan Thrall
A Day in the Life of Abed SalamaRead the article that grew into the book of the same name, this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Free from the Archives
Michael Shank: How Police Became Paramilitaries“The more militarized we allow law enforcement agents to become, the more likely officers are to use lethal violence against citizens: civilian deaths have been found to increase by about 130 percent when police forces acquire significantly more military equipment.”
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