Non-fiction

Illustration by Doug Chayka

Can We Cure Genetic Diseases Without Slipping Into Eugenics? Can We Cure Genetic Diseases Without Slipping Into Eugenics?

Gene editing could correct genetic mutations for serious illnesses. Will it also create a new eugenics of personal choice?

Jul 16, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Nathaniel Comfort

Nixon after resigning the Presidency

‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’ ‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’

The Watergate scandal was the final straw in Richard Nixon's fall from grace.

Jul 14, 2015 / Tim Weiner

Tony Judt

The NYRB Is Rewriting Tony Judt’s Stance on Israel The NYRB Is Rewriting Tony Judt’s Stance on Israel

Judt called for a just resolution to the conflict, not the preservation of a “Jewish State.”

Jul 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Protest at the New York Public Library, March 11, 2014.

Patience and Fortitude Patience and Fortitude

Scott Sherman’s masterful history of the fight to save the NYPL.

Jul 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

Yuval Noah Harari

70,000 Years of Human History in 400 Pages 70,000 Years of Human History in 400 Pages

Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and the rise of Deep History.

Jul 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michael Saler

Praful Bidwai

Remembering Praful Bidwai Remembering Praful Bidwai

Praful Bidwai used rigorous journalism to advance progressive change.

Jul 1, 2015 / Mark Kesselman

Henry Wallace Nation Security Forum

New Documentary Series Calls Out the Militarization of US Society New Documentary Series Calls Out the Militarization of US Society

The theme of alternative foreign policy and national security possibilities is what animates an ambitious new project from our friends at Brave New Films.

Jun 19, 2015 / Peter Rothberg

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed

“Abroad this execution will be thrown in our faces for a long time to come.”

Jun 19, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

The Watergate Complex

June 17, 1972: The Watergate Scandal Begins, as Nixon Campaign Associates Are Caught Breaking Into Democratic Headquarters June 17, 1972: The Watergate Scandal Begins, as Nixon Campaign Associates Are Caught Breaking Into Democratic Headquarters

“Whatever the motive for the ‘breaking and entering,’ it was not burglary, third rate or otherwise.”

Jun 17, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

Bombed Greenwich Village Building

Ignorant Good Will Ignorant Good Will

How an excesses of idealism and the embrace of violence destroyed the American left in the 1970s.

Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein

x