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Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Standing Up For Literature

By Maris Kreizman | August 28, 2025

What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

Peter Balakian on Richard Hofstadter and the Current Assault on Academia

By Peter Balakian | July 9, 2025

Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

Tobias Carroll on When Bad Fans Happen to Good Books

By Tobias Carroll | April 30, 2025

On Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters"> Science in America is Going Dark: <br

Science in America is Going Dark: <br

On Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters">

On Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters">Science in America is Going Dark:
On Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters

Gabrielle Bellot Ponders the Death of Original Thinking in a Country That’s Lost Its Way

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 25, 2025

What Community Means as a Queer Black Writer

What Community Means as a Queer Black Writer

Doug Jones Explores Acting Up in an Age of Tribalism

By Doug Jones | April 25, 2025

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

Gabrielle Bellot on the Empty Suits Destroying the Country

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 20, 2025

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How Inflammatory Rhetoric Feeds the Insurrectional Fantasies of the Far-Right

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By David Neiwert | June 27, 2023

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A Poisoned Reality: Jared Yates Sexton on Growing up with Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Prophecy

“Ensuring a better future depends on dismantling these lies and finding something that even approaches the truth.”

By Jared Yates Sexton | January 20, 2023

First they came for queer story time… And what did you do?

First they came for queer story time… And what did you do?

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of Nostalgia"> Kurt Andersen on the Corrosive Politics<br

Kurt Andersen on the Corrosive Politics<br

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Of Trumpism, Disunity, and Resistance to Change

By Kurt Andersen | August 12, 2020

Donald Trump Jr. booed out of his own book launch by young America Firsters.

Donald Trump Jr. booed out of his own book launch by young America Firsters.

By Jonny Diamond | November 11, 2019

Has the New Dark Age Begun Yet?

Has the New Dark Age Begun Yet?

Peter Fleming on Why He Writes Toward Apocalypse

By Peter Fleming | March 4, 2019