Cover Story
“We Must Not Be Enemies”
Progressives who wish for a less reactionary America could begin by trying to understand the Trump voter
by Amitai Etzioni
Articles
Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China
The stubborn advocate of free markets tangles with the ideologues of a state-run economy
by Julian B. Gewirtz
Good Neighbors
When beavers came between us and a farmer down the road, we knew something more was at stake
by Tamara Dean
Homebodies
A life spent mainly in the company of cats has meant relishing the comforts of domesticity and solitude
by Kyoko Mori
Tales From Motor City
Left for dead yet pulsing with life again, Detroit survives as a place of inconsistency and contradiction
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay
The Last Bursts of Memory
As my father’s dementia progressed, the stories of his life became less accurate but more vivid
by James VanOosting
Departments
Editor's Note
Letter From …
Tuning Up
American Places
Works in Progress
Fiction
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
The Gogol Notebook
Remembering Randall Jarrell’s passionate lectures on Russian literature and discovering the pangs of alienation that plagued the poet during his final years
Angela Davis-Gardner
Book Reviews
Controlled Experiments
The Soviet Union’s ideological and inefficient view of science
