In this issue

Private Schools Are Indefensible
By Caitlin Flanagan

The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Awful
By Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev

Dispatches: America Without God

As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea?

10 mins

Our Sad Souvenirs of The Pandemic

Americans can’t go anywhere, but we’re still buying the T-shirt.

9 mins

Beirut – After The Blast

Last summer’s explosion in Beirut killed hundreds of people and damaged much of the city. My efforts to repair my apartment reveal a lot about how Lebanon works—and doesn’t.

10+ mins

NO, REALLY, ARE WE ROME?

The sack of the Capitol was thwarted. But history suggests that corrosive change can be hard to see while it’s happening.

9 mins

Looking Up

When you are an ant, the stakes are always high. There are those who would eat you—birds, snakes, bigger bugs—and those who could trample you and your environment in a single sneakered step. These enormous beings may not mean you any harm, but it is impact, not intention, that matters most.

1 min

Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID

A growing g number of clinicians are on an urgent quest to find treatments for a frighteningly pervasive problem. They’ve had surprising early success.

10+ mins

The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful

The civic habits necessary for a functioning republic have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.

10+ mins

Private Schools Are Indefensible

The Gulf between how rich kids and poor kids are educated in America is obscene.

10+ mins

The Relentless Philip Roth

In his life as in his fiction, the author pursued the shameful, the libidinous, the repellent.

6 mins

The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot

Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.

10+ mins

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