October 2020

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In Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (2006), Jonathan Lear writes of the intellectual trauma of the Crow Indians. Forced to move in...

If, like me, you’re a baby boomer who pleaded as a child to stay up with the big kids to watch The Twilight Zone, you might...

To the Editors: We appreciate Peter E. Gordon’s thoughtful review of Charisma and Disenchantment, our edition of Max Weber’s “vocation lectures” [NYR, June 11], but of...

Not long ago, Hari Kunzru was asked in an interview, “What is the worst-case scenario for the future?” He answered with brutal lucidity: The US becomes...

When I first moved to this city to take a job, and the snows began to fall, a slow sadness took hold of me. Someone left...

To the Editors: Fara Dabhoiwala in “Speech and Slavery in the West Indies” [NYR, August 20] makes two claims that cannot be correct. As one of...

After the election of 2018, the US Congress became the most racially and ethnically diverse it had ever been. The freshman class contained a record number...

I am writing the biography of Morton Sobell, and would like to hear from anyone who knew him. David Evanier 917-671-7612 [email protected] Source : Query

In 1991 I went to Haiti looking for the past and discovered the future. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide—the “radical priest,” as the foreign press never tired of...