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Israeli Jews Vote by Economic Status, Even Though Elections Turn on Other Issues

How Students Dethroned Serbia’s Strongman

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Death Was Never a Joke

Magnetic sensors track muscle movement, for better prosthetic limb control

Dear Human, Poetry Might Save Us from the Apocalypse

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Eric Hobsbawm against the identitarians. Centering gender, race, and sexuality were not his “kind of history.” Nor were they Karl Marx’s

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Buckley’s Truth

Brazil in Yet Another End-of-the-World Election

The Arcsine Law and Close Elections

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

What happened to Scientific American? The political pendulum has swung back and forth, leaving a once hallowed magazine in shambles

The Filmmaker Who Defended Reality

Brazil’s Chapter in the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage

Justice Department Targets Alaska Senate Election

$9.25M Verdict Against N.Y. Times, in Libel Case Brought by Alabama Basketball Player

Two new books on Edward Said read his criticism alongside the work of Jonathan Swift and Lionel Trilling