How Can We Neutralize the Militias?
As the House impeachment managers proved, Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to act violently not just in the days leading up to the siege of the...
Nor Gloom of Night
Ellinor, the protagonist of the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s novel Long Live the Post Horn!, is a thirty-five-year-old former journalist working as a publicist in Oslo...
The Color Line
W.E.B. Du Bois carried himself as if he were “the Negro race.” Throughout his very long life—ninety-five years—his personal successes and victories were the successes and...
A Warning Ignored
1. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, a twenty-one-year-old African-American, was pulled over in Los Angeles while driving his mother’s Buick, then arrested after failing a...
The Elusive Wit of the Mahatma
To the Editors: While I very much enjoyed reading Fara Dabhoiwala’s “Imperial Delusions” [NYR, July 1], I couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at his description...
Slavery vs. White Supremacy
To the Editors: I write to thank Sean Wilentz for his generous, learned review of my The First Reconstruction and Kate Masur’s Until Justice Be Done...
Knowing How
When Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s problematic cousin, wrote of taking stock of his own “mental furniture,” he meant assessing the background experiences and assumptions that informed...
The Vindication of Sanora Babb
In the summer of 1938 Sanora Babb, an aspiring, talented, and determined young writer, joined the volunteer staff at camps in California’s Imperial and San Joaquin...
Hand (Giotto)
Over here the circle theme continuesWithout a clock, uncountable And unmarked despite a pouring sound,Despite slight lesions in the rock. A hand is waving, silently, from...
