Burma’s Fault Lines: Ethnic Federalism and the Road to Peace
As gross human rights violations against the country’s ethnic groups continue, can peace and democracy really take hold?
Winter 2025
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The Gospel According to Terry
Secularists must concede the futility of attempts to find a substitute for God.
The Naxal Novel
A series of novels captures the moral and political ambiguities of India’s Maoist insurgency.
Florence Gordon Writes a Memoir
It’s astonishing how little people know each other, even old friends. . . .
Scenes from the novel Florence Gordon.
Brute Ideology
Witchcraft and racecraft—unlike witches and race—are things that actually exist.
“They Did What They Liked”: Chevron and Dow on Trial
Over decades, U.S. multinationals have developed a formidable arsenal of legal tactics to escape accountability abroad.
The Passion of Mario Savio
Saint, saboteur, or square? Fifty years after the Free Speech Movement, a look back at its charismatic leader.
Odd Women
George Gissing’s novel captured our two-steps-forward, one-step-back journey to the “new” woman and man.
Refusing Marcuse: 50 Years After One-Dimensional Man
In the decades following the New Left’s collapse, has the stature of any intellectual fallen more dramatically than that of Herbert Marcuse?
Candide’s Garden: A Parable
When changing the very mechanisms for change is off-limits . . .
Theses on the Feminist Novel
Not every novel that concerns itself with the lives of women is a feminist novel.
Passports for Sale
Until recently, becoming a citizen of a country has largely been regarded as priceless—a rare intangible privilege that can’t be bought or sold. This perception is starting to fade.
For Pleasure: A Letter
Difficulty is not an inherent virtue. A book must on some level give pleasure.
Politics As Psychological Fulfillment: Judith Stein Responds to Rick Perlstein
Part three of our debate on the rise of the right.
“The View From 30,000 Feet”:
Rick Perlstein Responds to Judith Stein
The author of Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan debates reviewer Judith Stein on the rise of the right in the 1970s.
