DISSENT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Artificial Futures’….
Veena Dubal and Katie J. Wells
The chipmaker’s enormous bets are how capitalism is supposed to work
America will regret the treasure secretary’s interventions
Canada’s prime minister must beware an all-out trade war with Donald Trump
When obeying an American law means breaking a Chinese one
What Shakespeare & Co reveals about culture
Growing hatred of the facilities is reshaping the midterm elections
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
By Colin Burrow
What’s the point of literary criticism? In June the University of Exeter announced plans that might make roughly a third of its English department – one of the best in the country – redundant. Other institutions, including Canterbury Christ Church University, have stopped offering English degrees altogether. Most mainstream publishers now wouldn’t dream of publishing a work of literary criticism, as they happily did in the 1970s and 1980s. Even literary biography, literary criticism’s previously marketable stepsister, no longer brings a gleam to a publisher’s eye. The grassroots of the subject are also suffering badly. Since 2000 the number of people taking A-level English literature in England has dropped by around a third, to around 36,000, with an even higher drop among male students.
THE YALE REVIEW: The latest issue features….
My encounters with literary greats by Lucy Sante
Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are full of ghastly crimes, but the true horror lies in their confessions. By Emily Ogden
On facing the white page by Tom McCarthy
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Unwelcoming States of America’…
By trying to change its demographic trajectory, Donald Trump will make his country weaker
His latest tariff threats are proportionate. But the situation could get out of hand
But expect them to continue, so long as government debt stays high
But that may not be the aim
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Could AIs become conscious?’…
Even if they don’t, they might be treated as such—to humanity’s great cost
America must press Binyamin Netanyahu to rein in violent settlers
Whatever the company’s flaws, its critics have taken a worryingly illiberal turn
Both his supporters and detractors dehumanised the tragic fabulist
HARPER’S MAGAZINE: Erin Somers charts the rise and fall of cultivated meat, Barrett Swanson reports on the Ugly People Festival in Italy, Kyle Berlin on the French bestseller whose controversy divided the country, a pseudonymous memoir of a government official in Beijing, Finn Brunton on prediction markets and crypto-anarchism, Thomas Frank on the Obama Center, Kasia Boddy reviews William Kennedy’s Albany Trilogy, five stories from Diane Williams, and more.
The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t by Erin Somers
A weekend at the Ugly People Festival by Barrett Swanson
Prediction markets and the triumph of crypto-anarchy by Finn Brunton
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How We Won The War On Terror’ – 25 Years after 9/11
by Tod Lindberg
On September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush gave a major speech to Congress and the country in which he outlined the coming U.S. response to al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. He said, “Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.” Thus began what would soon be known as the “Global War on Terror,” or GWOT, in its unlovely acronym
It’s a confusing time to be a man. For decades, the cultural left has insisted that “toxic masculinity” is roaming the land, threatening women’s safety and rights.
Two possible paths, one pro-American, one not. Where will the Kingdom go?
Five years after America’s exit, the Afghan regime is not going anywhere
Thank Marco Rubio, but beware the caprice of his boss
Walloping the global trading system is no way to help Ukraine
When market power comes from buying power, oil importers can do better
Couples should be allowed to select embryos on the basis of both disease resistance and IQ
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features “Confessions of a Token Black Professor”…
The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia By Tyler Austin Harper
Some institutions jumped onto the MAGA bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to look shortsighted. By David A. Graham
A few years ago, there was a push for acceptance of different body types. Now? Not so much. By Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan
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