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"Something has happened to the fabric of society"
This essay contrasts Mister Rogers' vision of neighborliness with the harsh treatment of legal immigrants in the United States, focusing on the case of Kseniia Petrova. It explores how class resentment and institutional silence have enabled arbitrary cruelty toward those who came here to contribute.04-13-2025
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Happy Holidays! December 25th, 2016
Masha Gessen suggests that facts are not the field on which politics is played, and starting from them is a mistake:12-25-2016
December 11th, 2016
David Runciman asks the question: "Isn’t this how democracy ends?" But the answer he offers is not so simple.12-11-2016
Virtual Reading Group 26 Discussion: "Tradition and The Modern Age"
Virtual Reading Group 26 Discussion: "Tradition and The Modern Age"12-08-2016
December 4th, 2016
Ian Buruma looks at the special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K. in the wake of Donald Trump's election and the Brexit vote. He argues that both votes are in important ways responding to a similar distaste for certain kinds of citizens.12-04-2016
November 27th, 2016
Arthur Goldhammer argues that Trump's "farrago of falsehoods" threatens the common world that allows any society to exist.11-27-2016
November 20th, 2016
Leon Botstein offers nine "Speculative Thoughts on the Trump Presidency." Here are the first two.11-20-2016
November 13th, 2016
In writing about the evils of genocide and totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt insisted on the effort to understand.11-13-2016