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Cover Story

The China Model

Its economic success and rejection of democratic values have engaged leaders across the globe

Cover Story

The China Model

Its economic success and rejection of democratic values have engaged leaders across the globe

ARTICLES

The Birth of Black Power

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement

Jacques Barzun and Friend

What did a distinguished historian, and possibly a great man, see in an unkempt young would-be writer?

Natural Magic

Modern medicine's roots in alchemy, astronomy, and the apothecary shop

Unsentimental Education

Mary Ware Dennett’s quest to make contraception—and knowledge about sex—available to all

The Birth of Black Power

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement

Jacques Barzun and Friend

What did a distinguished historian, and possibly a great man, see in an unkempt young would-be writer?

Natural Magic

Modern medicine's roots in alchemy, astronomy, and the apothecary shop

Unsentimental Education

Mary Ware Dennett’s quest to make contraception—and knowledge about sex—available to all

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

Every Letter is a Love Letter

You take time to write only when you care

book reviews

When Ideas Mattered

How “freedom from” became “freedom to”

Seconds from Midnight

Busting the myth that skilled diplomacy saved the world

Swimming the River of Song

How a young scholar demystified the ancient oral tradition

Surviving the Anthropocene

Can we reverse-engineer our way out of catastrophe?

Artist of Excess

The man who painted his century’s nightmare