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George PackerThe New Yorker |
PEN America and the authoritarian spirit For writers living under an authoritarian regime, the price of intellectual independence is...
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university. Fifty-six years...
In a new memoir, the author reckons with the attack that nearly took his life. Salman Rushdie tells us that he wrote Knife , his account of his...
Vying for its crucial support, neither Democrats nor Republicans are focusing on the essential question. Listen to this article 00:00 31:59 Listen to...
Will America abandon Ukraine? In the summer of 1940, when Great Britain was fighting Nazi Germany alone, Winston Churchill asked to borrow a few dozen...
The press has repeatedly fallen into Donald Trump’s traps. A second term could render it irrelevant. The relationship between Donald Trump and the...
His blindness to human suffering was, in the end, both a moral failure and a strategic one. Henry Kissinger spent half a century pursuing and using...
Art and politics have very different agendas. When artists turn to activism or introduce politics into a work of art, it’s usually taken as...
Fury is justified, but civilian casualties must be avoided. If 10/7 was Israel’s 9/11, as many of the country’s leaders have said, the meaning of...