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Mr. Difficult Jr.

Sho Spaeth

November 14, 2018

The new "William Gass Reader" celebrates the great essayist and philosopher—but it's Gass's fictions that will stand the test of time.

Fanatical Moderate

Nathan Goldman

November 13, 2018

In Dear Zealots, Amos Oz is unwavering in his commitment to a Jewish nationalism as simple and brutal as any other.

The Business He’s Chosen

Ben Schwartz

November 13, 2018

Tucker Carlson shed his bow-tie, and the kind of deferential comportment it symbolized, years ago.

If It Looks Like a Duck

Yohann Koshy

November 09, 2018

How to read How to Read Donald Duck in 2018.

Our One-Weird-Trick Military

Scott Beauchamp

November 06, 2018

The American military has blocked out our nation’s ability to solve problems without the help of the Pentagon.

The Florida Man Can’t

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

November 05, 2018

The Florida of the abstract joke is a worthy cipher for America’s signature blend of incompetent savagery.

Trafficking in Lies

Juno Mac,  Molly Smith

November 05, 2018

Viewing trafficking as conceptually akin to kidnap allows us to sidestep broader questions of safe migration.

Beto at the Border

Michelle García

November 02, 2018

Latinos work to wrest the right's political weapon of choice—the U.S.-Mexico border itself.

Land of Extraction

Sammy Feldblum

November 02, 2018

New Mexico heads into an election that will decide how to handle an oil and gas boom.

Populist Persuasions

Joe Lowndes

October 31, 2018

Imagine that the left set out to reclaim populism. Is it possible?

Speaking Ills

John Semley

October 31, 2018

Debate—and especially the challenge to debate—exists as an end in itself. Debate has become a conservative fetish object.

Twilight of the Racist Uncles

Ed Burmila

October 30, 2018

Younger users aren’t ditching Facebook because of Alex Jones, but because listening to all of America’s uncles at once is our literal nightmare.