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The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law
If you attended law school at any time over the past half-century, your course in constitutional law likely followed a…
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Here’s How an Open Democratic Convention Would Work
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ [You can listen to this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” on the NYT…
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Is Shoplifting OK if the Shop Owner Is Awful?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the moral implications of a friend’s stealing habit.
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What Do We Owe Black Americans?
In my debut novel, a family retraces their lineage in order to be eligible for the nation’s first federal reparations…
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Trump Is Losing It
It is unclear whether Donald Trump has forgotten the precise nature of NATO or whether he ever fully grasped it…
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How Do You Get Acoustic Instruments to Play Electronic Music?
The composer Matthew Sheeran, brother of the pop star Ed Sheeran, discusses how he translated microtonal electronic music for a…
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Is Poor Economic Sentiment All About MAGA?
The economy is good, but Americans feel bad about it. Or do they? The more I look into it, the…
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The False Note in Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’
The film celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s musical duality, but fails to seriously engage with his bisexuality.
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Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Fed
Interest rates are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this…
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A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included
Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.