Salvos
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Village Atheists, Village Idiots
Sam Kriss Issue No. 32Something has gone badly wrong with our atheists. All these self-styled intellectual titans, scientists, and philosophers have fallen horribly ill. Evolutionist faith-flayer Richard Dawkins is a wheeling lunatic, dizzy in his private world… Read More »
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Divine Indigestion
Jonathon Sturgeon Issue No. 32“America is not at any crossroads,” Perry Anderson writes in American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers, his 2015 guide to the rise and scholarly maintenance of the American imperium. Anderson is challenging Francis Fukuyama in… Read More »
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Madam Prescient
Jessa Crispin Issue No. 32It was not, at one time, considered so remarkable that a candidate for the United States presidency talked to the dead. That the candidate was a former prostitute and an advocate for free love was… Read More »
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Small Worlds
Chris Lehmann Issue No. 32When will America get its shit together? No, I don’t mean by this the sort of rhetorical plea that readers expect as a matter of course in journals of opinion—be it the calls for banking… Read More »
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The Shock of the Crazed
J.C. Hallman Issue No. 32Art brut “auteurs” are not artists, I’m told. The champions of art brut—variously translated as “raw,” “rough,” or “outsider” art—stress that the work of individual, untutored practitioners trumps all the usual conventions of artistic legacy-building,… Read More »
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Who Speaks for the Trees?
Astra Taylor Issue No. 32On the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, the small college town where I grew up, there is a tall white oak, and a small weathered stone plaque that reads: For… Read More »
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Womb Up, America!
Lucy Ellmann Issue No. 32Consider pistons and pumps. Sockets and plugs. Consider shafts. Cogs. Funnels. We cover the earth with stuff in the image of our genitalia. Almost every machine we produce is unashamedly coital, just one thing after… Read More »
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The Higher Happiness
George Scialabba Issue No. 32In the Feminist Hall of Fame, there are a few places for men. Near the entrance, in the Mary Wollstonecraft Room, there’s a bust of William Godwin, her husband. The author of A Vindication of… Read More »
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Black Elk, Woke
Ann Neumann Issue No. 32Perhaps the prophets and systematic theologians of some future religion will adopt the phrase “American visionary” as a curse, in the same general semantic family as, say, “the world’s policeman” or “presumptive GOP nominee.” It’s… Read More »
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Pity, O God, the Republican
Susan Faludi Issue No. 31“Nobody will protect our Nation like Donald J. Trump. Our military will be greatly strengthened and our borders will be strong. Illegals out!” —Donald Trump, on Twitter, @realDonaldTrump, March 26, 2016 A balmy evening in Budapest,… Read More »
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True Fakes on Location
Tom Carson Issue No. 31The most glorious set in movie history stood derelict for a few years where Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards meet, attracting curiosity seekers and growing steadily more unsafe. It was finally torn down in 1919 or… Read More »
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Where the Wild Things Aren’t: National Parks
Nathan C. Martin Issue No. 31As the National Park Service celebrates its centennial this summer, the compulsory stories and listicles acknowledging the event will lazily trot out the Ken Burns–sanctioned notion that national parks are “America’s Best Idea.” Of course,… Read More »