
Articles
How to Pay for What We Need
Congress could create money, as it did during the Civil War, funding public projects that shock the economy back to life
by Richard Striner
The Gravity of Falling
Having hurtled through the American century, we are distracted and confused. But can we find our way again?
by Edward Hoagland
A Jew in the Northwest
Exile, ethnicity, and the search for the perfect futon
by William Deresiewicz
His Hour Upon the Stage
As a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented
by Douglas L. Wilson
St. Augustine and the Hall of Memory
Like the philosopher, my aunt kept house in her imagination, tending to the sensations and images of the past
by Greta Austin
The Witch Temple of Mehandipur
To an Indian town the possessed come in droves, their families desperate to be rid of the evil that curses them