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ARTICLES

The Censor in the Mirror

It’s not only what the Chinese Propaganda Department does to artists, but what it makes artists do to their own work

The Torture Colony

In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds

Where Does American History Begin?

Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down

Something Called Terrorism

In a speech given at Harvard 22 years ago and never before published, Leonard Bernstein offered a warning that remains timely

The New Old Way of Learning Languages

Now all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methods

The Censor in the Mirror

It’s not only what the Chinese Propaganda Department does to artists, but what it makes artists do to their own work

The Torture Colony

In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds

Where Does American History Begin?

Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down

Something Called Terrorism

In a speech given at Harvard 22 years ago and never before published, Leonard Bernstein offered a warning that remains timely

The New Old Way of Learning Languages

Now all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methods

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

The Most Important Election in History

Is it possible to elect a president without invoking that phrase?

poetry

Apollo and Dionysus

Henri Cole combines the formal and the sensual

fiction

commonplace book

Book essay

The Swiveling Light of Truth

Remembering Grace Paley and her wise, fierce, funny, sad, innovative short stories

book reviews

Immortality Gained

John Milton was not only a great poet, but also a great defender of liberty

Copyright Wrongs

When technology makes an illegal act easy, should the law make that act legal?

How Special a Relationship?

Whether T.R. needed Edward VII to establish the United States as a world power

Potted History

Learning more about slave life in South Carolina from a legendary potter-poet

Shaking Habit’s House

Critic James Wood preaches a return to the realism of Flaubert