The truth is clear: as all possible mechanisms to stop Israel’s illegal onslaught are pursued, a full spectrum of aid is also needed in Gaza today. The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, ...

Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss? The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, ...

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...

The liberal counternarrative tends to be a smaller story, about individuals choosing not to be parents. More people are making this choice, they concede, but the important question is whether people ...

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

More important, even the most generous attempts to protect the political and socioeconomic rights of individuals leave some duties of individuals to their own states and all humanity out of account, ...

The Italian novelist Italo Calvino was unusually optimistic about the invention of a “literature machine.” In his 1967 essay “Cybernetics and Ghosts,” he imagines a computer that would be “capable of ...

Conservatives have been pushing two related theories to explain this uptick. First, there’s the “social contagion” theory, which holds that in a world drowning in representations of heterosexuality ...

Over the course of my lifetime, I have called myself or been called a variety of names: queer, lesbian, dyke, butch, transgender, stone, and transgender butch, just for starters. Indeed, one day when ...

How do we approach questions about “what it’s like” to be something or someone? One way of asking these questions makes them impossible to answer regardless of what minds might be made of. In this ...