Uncertainty about where we find ourselves in political time—“back to the future,” back to the GOP of 1989, or back to Germany ...

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of ...

Amid deficit-allergic neoliberal politics, everyone can agree on the appeal of budgetary savings. So now it is not just liberals going after mass incarceration. A group of brand-name conservatives, ...

For much of the past decade, the most imitated new American poets were slippery, digressive, polyvocalic, creators of overlapping, colorful fragments. Their poems were avowedly personal, although they ...

“As a punishment for the crime of being born of a white father and a black mother I spent my early years in a prison for children.” So begins My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria ...

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure. Atop its other outrages and illegalities, the Trump administration has taken ...

This weekend Paul Thomas Anderson premiered his new film, One Battle After Another, loosely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland. Revisiting the book five years ago, Peter Coviello ...

I learned my name was on the list from a Jewish colleague at my university, a woman I hardly know. “I need to tell you something,” she wrote in an email to me. “Do you have a minute for a call today?” ...

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself. Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence in his classic, ...

Paragon Solutions, Israel’s premier mercenary spyware firm, is headquartered on the top five floors of a glass panel skyscraper that sits next to a discount bank branch in central Tel Aviv. When I ...