Walter Johnson
In Harvard Yard

Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance.

Timothy Garton Ash
Big Germany, What Now?

The post-Wall era is over and everyone, including the Germans, is asking which way Germany—the most powerful country in the European Union—will go.

Tiya Miles
How Bondage Built the Church

Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance.

Ange Mlinko
Transatlantic Flights

The collected poems of Denise Levertov and Anne Stevenson suggest what a poet can gain by expatriation, in both directions between England and the United States.

Katie J. Wells, Declan Cullen, and Kafui Attoh
Inside Uber’s Political Machine

By spending vast sums on political lobbying, Uber has mounted a multi-pronged assault on the regulatory state.

At the Pulitzer Prizes

Congratulations to Nathan Thrall, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for his book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, which grew out of an investigation he wrote for The New York Review; and to Zadie Smith, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for her review of Tár in our pages.

Nathan Thrall
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

“For over half a century, Israel’s strategic dilemma has been its inability to erase the Palestinians, on one hand, and its unwillingness to grant them civil and political rights, on the other. Explaining his opposition to giving Palestinians in the West Bank the same rights as Palestinian citizens of Israel, [former deputy prime minister] Abba Eban said that there was a limit to the amount of arsenic the human body could absorb. Between the two poles of mass expulsion and political inclusion, the unhappy compromise Israel found was to fragment the Palestinian population, ensuring that its scattered pieces could not organize as one national collective.”

Zadie Smith
The Instrumentalist

“To paraphrase Schopenhauer—who gets several shout-outs in Tár—every generation mistakes the limits of its own field of vision for the limits of the world. But what happens when generational visions collide? How should we respond?”

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