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American Vulgarity, from Lenny Bruce to Kanye West
When you restrain jokes, an obscene backlash is inevitable.
Eli Lake
Things Worth Remembering: ‘James’ Is a Masterpiece
This year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Percival Everett’s novel, which deserves every award in literature.
Tiya Miles
Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One.
Is the Yale historian a prophet, as his supporters say? Or is he stripping the word ‘fascism’ of its meaning?
Peter Savodnik
The Man Who Helped Michael Jordan Win
Bari Weiss
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The Intellectual Godfathers of Protectionism
Once shunned, globalization’s doubters turned out to be right about its destructive economic and social consequences. What do they think of what Trump…
Joe Nocera
Tyler Cowen: Is Classical Liberalism for Losers?
For many on the right, the past decade has proven that liberalism is not strong enough to fight off illiberal challengers. They say it’s time to strike…
Tyler Cowen
Matti Friedman: What the Kibbutz Can Teach Israel on Its 77th Birthday
Of the 400 residents of Nir Oz, a quarter were either kidnapped or killed by Hamas on October 7. Now, they rebuild.
Matti Friedman
Douglas Murray: How Death Cults Infiltrated America
The British journalist rails against pro-Hamas protests—and the moral failure of a West that tolerates them.
Bari Weiss
The Most Dangerous Club on Earth
This is the sordid story of how North Korea lied its way into nuclear power—and how Iran might do the same.
Eli Lake
Could DNA Testing Exonerate the Lindbergh Baby’s Kidnapper?
There have always been doubts about whether or not Bruno Hauptmann was guilty. New evidence may give us the answer.
Joe Nocera and Poppy Damon
The Jews Who Saw Around History’s Darkest Corner
It is important to speak plainly about those who foresaw what was coming in Europe. Those who warned and acted and who saved what could be saved. Those…
Haviv Rettig Gur
Who Betrayed Anne Frank? We May Now Learn the Answer.
A newly opened Dutch archive challenges the myth of a nation that protected Jews—and sparks a reckoning with the present.
Ruth Franklin
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