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Now What?
Since 2019 Joseph O’Neill has been writing essays for the Review exhorting the Democratic Party to play offense in the face of what was beginning to seem like an aversion to winning. So in November 2024, in the bewildering days after Donald Trump’s reelection, I wrote to O’Neill in search of a…
The Blue Wave—I
David Cole • Sue Halpern • Mark O’Connell • Quinn Slobodian The People’s Referendum David Cole Early in President Donald Trump’s second term, I spoke at a local Washington, D.C., bookstore on civil liberties and the rule of law. DOGE was taking a wrecking ball to federal agencies, Trump had…
The Next Generation
The American left has won a historic election by successfully linking the affordability crisis to Republican corruption, and the whole Democratic Party must now learn from their example.
Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis, and Biography
Season 2, Episode 7 of Private Life
Trump, Hitler, and Democracy’s Trip Wire
The fourth episode of Endgame with Fintan O’Toole welcomes the Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, whose most recent essay for the Review, “Surely Not?,” considers how an actual “Manchurian candidate” in the White House would never dare to be as radical and widely destructive as Donald Trump…
Oysters High and Low
Chincoteagues, Willapoints, Blue Points, Olympias, Portugaises, and Whitestaples. Oysters sizzled in butter, simmered in cream, boiled in their own juices, baked with breadcrumbs, broiled over rock salt, roasted whole, thrown on grills, chopped into soups, mashed into bisques, fried with eggs…
Are There No Limits to Religious Freedom?
Does a Catholic school have a constitutional right to demand state funds for its pre-K program while refusing to admit four-year-olds whose parents are gay or transgender, when the state requires all recipients of such funding not to exclude children on that basis? You might think the answer would…
Serbia’s Graduation Day
I was wrong. Until October 25, when Serbia’s students won an extraordinary victory in an early general election, I thought they had little chance of bringing down Aleksandar Vučić, their country’s authoritarian leader. For the last two years I had followed as the students created a leaderless…
One Nation Under the Prosperity Gospel
As the grandson of a Pentecostal preacher, I can quote each of the thirty-five verses of Exodus 32, in which the recently liberated Hebrew peoples, fed up waiting for Moses to descend from Mount Sinai with divine orders, ask his brother, Aaron, to make them new gods. After beckoning them all to…
Here Be Monsters
I’d been noticing monsters everywhere. It was 2025 and President Donald Trump had been calling immigrants “monsters.” His opponents hurled the term right back at him. Monsters appeared at the movies, from Sinners to Frankenstein, and on the radio, from Lady Gaga’s “The Beast” to the chart-topping…
‘A Doubt That Takes Easily’
This fall a literary scandal has erupted in France around a debut novel with a dramatic title—C’était ça ou mourir (“It Was Either That or Die”)—by the Haitian-Québécois author Thélyson Orélien. Orélien’s account of a Haitian migrant’s odyssey across South and North America made it onto the…
The Many Views of Yvonne Jacquette
Her frequent ascents in airplanes and helicopters, and to the tops of skyscrapers, granted the painter an unusual and rich perspective.
Olana Interrupted
The sublime landscapes that inspired Frederic Edwin Church are refracted through climate change in Winter in the Summer House, an installation by the British American artist Ellen Harvey.
Biden’s Choice
As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support. Why couldn’t they see the destruction they were enabling?
Multiplying Selves
In How It Works Out, a couple reappears in alternate realities—as celebrities, parents, cannibals, pets and insects—in search of the best of possible worlds.
One Battle After Another
Two new histories of the Red Brigades explain how terrorism took hold in the wealthiest parts of Italy in the 1970s.
Hull House on the Hudson
Mary K. Simkhovitch, the founder of Greenwich House, believed in the radical idea that housing should be made as livable for the working class as it was for the middle class.
Me Too in the Middle Ages
A forensic study of a rape survivor from 1473 Dijon reveals a legal process surprisingly accepting of imperfect victims and contradictory testimony.
Big Money, Small Races
Since Citizens United, super PACs have poured billions of dollars into elections. A new book argues that outside money has its biggest impact in local races, where voters know the least.
Urban Legend
Tally Brown, New York reintroduces an “underground star” to the city whose stages, clubs, and bathhouses have been largely forgotten.
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