This essay appears in our Spring 2026 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. On Saturday night, a lone gunman attacked the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, sending off the predictable wave of ...

On the ground in Gaza there is no trace of any effort to rebuild, nor have humanitarian conditions improved. This is what ...

2018 could be called the year of the witch. From the proliferation of magic crystal shops in Brooklyn and Los Angeles to witchy fashions on the spring 2019 runways, coven contingents at antifascist ...

For the September 2016 stop at Louisiana State University of his Dangerous Faggot Tour, Milo Yiannopoulos is dressed as his drag persona Ivana Wall. Accompanied by a young squire, he teeters across ...

This essay appears in print in Thinking in a Pandemic. Recent history tells us a lot about how epidemics unfold, how outbreaks spread, and how they are controlled. We also know a good deal about ...

U.S. history is a strange, exceptional field of play where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s famous sign-off from Lake Wobegon, all the revolutions are strong, all the revolutionaries are kind, and ...

“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” Alabama governor George Wallace’s most famous sentence fired through the frigid air on the coldest day anyone in the state could remember.

The word “technocracy” has been around for a century, but as a term of political derision it has flourished since the global financial crisis of 2008, especially in the context of the European Union’s ...

The clinic was open once a week. It saw patients in a borrowed space near enough that I could walk to it, even on a bad day. Walking slow in my cognitive fog, only once did I have to pause, leaning ...

In Chu T’ien-wen’s 1994 novel Notes of a Desolate Man, the narrator recalls the death a decade earlier of French philosopher Michel Foucault: The unfinished history of sexual consciousness stopped ...

In the late 1940s, the Cold War was heating up. In the United States anticommunism had reached a fever pitch at the same time that antiblack violence had forcefully re-emerged in the form of lynching ...