From 2016 to 2020 Donald J. Trump served as forty-fifth president of the United States; now, he has secured his reelection and will assume office once again as president number forty-seven. It was ...

In Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, The Mastermind, the scheme of James Blaine “J. B.” Mooney (Josh O’Connor) to extract four Arthur Dove paintings from the Framingham Museum of Art gets off to a rather ...

Though I would eventually end up in Somaliland, where I was born and where my parents live, I had to first stop in ...

Nine months into Donald Trump’s second term, MAGA appears more powerful than ever. Trump’s war on the pillars of civil society have scored real victories. Several elite universities have been cowed; ...

The United States has been at war every day since its founding, often covertly and often in several parts of the world at once. As ghastly as that sentence is, it still does not capture the full ...

There was nothing terribly unusual about South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s recent decision to bar trans girls from participating in sex-segregated sports. After all, Noem has become a darling of the ...

In the 1970s, a group of feminists collaborating under the banner Wages for Housework (including Selma James, Silvia Federici, and Mariarosa Dalla Costa) came up with a remarkably precise dictum to ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of two essays responding to Calvin Bedient’s “Against Conceptualism.” Read Rachel Galvin’s response here. These models . . . are so concerned with the work being done in the ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Like U.S. history, classical music has become a new front in the culture wars as musicians and music institutions grapple with the legacies of racism. With most performing arts organizations shuttered ...

“How can a poet be renowned but unknown, adored but elided?” asks editor Michael Seth Stewart in his introduction to Yours Presently, a collection of the letters of pathbreaking queer poet John ...