Featuring Zeynep Pamuk on building science back better, and Michael Harris on human understanding in the age of AI.
Also in this issue:
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on a Brazilian strategy for holding Trump to account
Lorna Finlayson on Habermas and the fate of critical theory
Omer Bartov talks with Arnon Grunberg about Israel’s paranoid memory politics
Yarimar Bonilla on Puerto Rico’s water crisis
Paul Hockenos on a family’s unraveling in occupied Ukraine
Benjamin Balthaser on the Obama Presidential Center
Aslı Ü. Bâli on U.S. weakness in the Persian Gulf
Aaron Regunberg makes the case against “climate hushing”
Richard Moran on a reckless report on the humanities
China Miéville talks with Mark Bould about his epic new novel—his first in twenty years
James G. Chappel on Samuel Moyn’s Gerontocracy in America
Daniel Wortel-London on a new collection of Dwight Macdonald’s essays, Atrocities of the Mind
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Other books by Omer Bartov, Lorna Finlayson, et al.
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El saqueo de los élites (Spanish Edition)
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Forever Wars
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, David Waldstreicher, et al. -
Brute Force and Plunder
by Rana Aziz, Vivian Gornick, et al. -
Reconsidering Reparations
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What Is The State For?