He famously hailed the triumph of liberal democracy. Now he struggles to see a future for it.

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Martha Rosler shows how the world really works.

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Edward Gorey’s lifelong experiments in the absurd and unsettling

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy

Recovering the profound divisions that led to the Civil War

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What lies beneath the sleek stylings of dystopian shows like "Homecoming"

Ideological division was once seen as the solution to America’s political gridlock. What went wrong?

The liberating disjointedness of Diane Williams’s very short stories

What arguments for a more humane approach to war conceal

How Anthony Powell chronicled the curiously languid world of the English middle class

The show's third season illuminates the hard work of living a better life.

The history of strikes shows that, for lasting success, workers need to capture political power.

Do atheists think too much like believers?

What a literature that embraces female anger can achieve