Cover Story
The China Model
Its economic success and rejection of democratic values have engaged leaders across the globe
by Shakhar Rahav
Cover Story
Putin’s Potemkin Paradise
The troubling appeal of Russia’s blend of political repression and bourgeois comfort
by Graeme Wood
Articles
The Birth of Black Power
Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement
by Sally Greene
Jacques Barzun and Friend
What did a distinguished historian, and possibly a great man, see in an unkempt young would-be writer?
by Arthur Krystal
Natural Magic
Modern medicine's roots in alchemy, astronomy, and the apothecary shop
by Ellen Wayland-Smith
Unsentimental Education
Mary Ware Dennett’s quest to make contraception—and knowledge about sex—available to all
by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Departments
Editor's Note
Tuning Up
Strange Bedfellows
Arts
Works in Progress
Fiction
Commonplace Book
Book Reviews
Swimming the River of Song
How a young scholar demystified the ancient oral tradition
