In this issue

The Radical Self-Awareness of Michael R. Jackson
He’s become one of the most surprising and incisive—and misunderstood—social critics of our time.
By Thomas Chatterton Williams

In Defense of Woodrow Wilson
Despised as a racist by today’s left and a tyrant by today’s right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack.
By David Frum

THE DESPOTS OF SILICON VALLEY

The tech world has its own ascendant political ideology, and it's past time we call it what it is.

10+ mins

Lost Photographs of Black America

Ernest Cole was born in 1940 to a Black family in the Eersterust township, near Pretoria, South Africa.

2 mins

American Cowardice

Scot Peterson, condemned as the "Coward of Broward," stood by as a slaughter unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Does the blame lie with him, his training or a society in denial about what it would take to stop mass shootings?

10+ mins

The Curious Case of the Contested Basquiats

Twenty-five \"masterpieces,\" an FBI raid, and the maddening, sometimes impossible task of rooting out fakes and forgeries

10+ mins

The Radical Self-Awareness of Michael R. Jackson

He's become one of the most surprising and incisive-and misunderstood-social critics of our time.

10+ mins

Meet Me in the Eternal City

Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who's ready to move in?

10+ mins

IN DEFENSE OF WOODROW WILSON

Despised as a racist by today's left and a tyrant by today's right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack.

10+ mins

The James Bond Trap

Ian Fleming created the superspy and then couldn't get rid of him.

5 mins

Shelf Life

An incisive satirist of literary Brooklyn takes on the American big-box store.

10 mins

The Disorienting Beauty of "Africa & Byzantium"

A landmark exhibition offers a new history of art.

10+ mins

How Marilynne Robinson Reads Scripture

In her hands, the Book of Genesis becomes a precursor to the novel.

10 mins

Raina Telgemeier Gets It

The wildly successful cartoonist turned the anxious kid into a hero.

6 mins

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