A rich, harrowing chronicle of the federal government’s oppression of homosexuals in the 20th century firmly refuses to draw any connection to today’s struggles.
July/August 2022
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Stop Thanking Vets and Start Listening To Them
The National Book Award winner for fiction offers essays that help explain and bind our post-9/11 wounds.
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America’s Black Founders
David Hackett Fischer demonstrates the centrality of people of African descent in shaping this country’s regional cultures.
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Wrecking the College Pecking Order
Much of higher education has a love/hate relationship with college rankings: love them when their college does well, and refuse to recognize their existence if they ever drop a spot. But most colleges—and selective institutions in particular—play the rankings game in two key ways. First, they spend considerable time and effort putting together data for […]
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Neoliberalism Is Dying. What Comes Next?
History shows that the period between the end of one political order and the beginning of another is a time of maximum danger.
