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
FDR’s Compliant Justices
The Supreme Court’s deference to FDR during World War II resulted in unjustifiable ethical breaches, but its new code of conduct has not resolved the question of when a justice should be disqualified from a case.
December 5, 2024 issue
The Sense of an Endling
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.
December 5, 2024 issue
Alice Munro’s Retreat
In the years after she chose to stay with her husband despite learning that he had abused her daughter Andrea, Alice Munro’s stories came to reveal more than she might have known.
December 5, 2024 issue
The Dream of the Raised Arm
In early Thirties Germany, as the Nazi threat grew, the state’s propaganda machine began to penetrate the dream life of its citizenry. What of our dreams today, under the influence of the algorithms? And what will come with the return of Donald Trump?
December 5, 2024 issue
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Zadie Smith: On Optimism and Despair“When I wrote a novel about the London I grew up in, I further did not realize that by describing an environment in which people from different places lived relatively peaceably side by side, I was ‘championing’ a situation that was in fact on trial and whose conditions could suddenly be revoked.”
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