Discouraging surveys and a semi-illiterate president notwithstanding, reports of the death of reading are exaggerated.
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Burning the Past to Build the Future
AI companies are cutting apart old books for the human writing their technology is making increasingly hard to find.
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Honoring the Best of Nonfiction Book Reviewing
The Monthly’s Annual Kukula Award Returns.
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Monopoly Men
Big Tech platforms and the Gilded Age trusts have something in common: a stifling grip on the fundamentals of commerce.
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Justice Barrett’s Campaign Biography
By presenting judging as pure law untainted by politics, Amy Coney Barrett offers a picture so implausible it makes cynics of us all.
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How America’s Tax Code Built an Aristocracy
We say taxes make citizens equal before the state. In practice, they divide them—between those whose income is tracked at the source and those whose wealth is invisible.
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Running Out of People
The coming population bust won’t be solved by right-wing pronatalism or left-wing subsidies. It will require confronting how modern life puts parenting out of reach.
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Constitution in Progress
The most revolutionary part of our founding document is its capacity for change.
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God and Man at Sea
William F. Buckley Jr. spent a lifetime trying to make a coherent intellectual case for conservatism but could never articulate what it was supposed to consist of apart from owning the libs.
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What Hungary Lost When It Obeyed in Advance
The country’s leaders thought they could restore the nation’s lost glory through alliance with Hitler. By 1945, Budapest lay in ruins and 550,000 Hungarian Jews were dead.
