That is: truth without reconciliation. Disputed Pasts rejects a simple casting of the role of memory in which the left ...

This essay is featured in our Summer 2026 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. In early April, a committee of ten professors submitted a “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the ...

Has any single book drawn more Americans leftward over the last half century than A People’s History of the United States? Howard Zinn was not the first to write about Bartolomé de las Casas, the ...

You asked me to write an essay to accompany your book, The Return, and gave me one rule. “Don’t discuss the photographs.” You told me: “I want people to see the images on their own terms.” This essay ...

This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. It is hard to recall another work of philosophy, in this century or any other, which has enjoyed such ...

Over the past fifteen years of observing tech development, I’ve found that terms I once used like “cyber-utopianism,” “Internet-centrism,” and “techno-solutionism” fail to fully capture Big Tech’s ...

This essay appears in print in On Solidarity. Organizing is not a process of ideological matchmaking. Most people’s politics will not mirror our own, and even people who identify with us strongly on ...

This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the Black Community ...

The cautious merchant and the keen manufacturer were equally unable to resist the speculation. It spread among them like a leprosy. It ruined alike the innocent and the guilty. It periled many a ...

The Arab uprisings of the last decade—and similar protest movements in Iran and Turkey—have given way to counterrevolution, authoritarian retrenchment, and state failure across much of the Middle East ...

“She would sit upright in her bed and recall the moment she saw Aisha’s face.” An Iraqi émigré explains to a New York doctor why she has enrolled in a study for a new antidepressant.

Editors’ Note: On December 17, 2020, the New England Journal of Medicine published a research letter, “Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement,” prompted by this essay. Read the medical study here ...