The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
"If everyone in the world ate as much meat as Americans do (176 pounds per person per year), we’d need to find another planet to raise the feed and… More
Los Angeles Plays Itself
"As much as any city, Los Angeles is a work-in-progress, a landscape of fragments where the boundaries we take for granted in other environments are not always clear." More
Irreparable Harm
The election of Bush was never the real problem. The assertion of power—in a matter in which the Court is morally and constitutionally precluded from playing any part—is. More
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Between the World and Me. Read an excerpt of the book. More
The Disappearance Approach
He was lying in his bed with his eyes closed. I knew when I saw him with the CPAP mask over his mouth and nose and heard the whooshing… More
A Love Letter to Brazilian Modernism: On Translating Veronica Stigger
Brazilian writer Veronica Stigger's award-winning debut novel is a groundbreaking work of world-class fiction by an author unknown in the English-speaking world. More
The Centaur’s Son
As I lay in my crib, sleeping only three crow miles away in another small sandstone farmhouse was a 15-year-old boy who was dreaming of graduating from high school… More
Dark Corners
As I sat alone at a picnic table eating lunch prepared by a woman in the congregation—chips, BBQ, chicken, corn on the cob, spaghetti, and cake—I was visited by… More
Prison Perspectives on Schopenhauer
Should I look for another philosopher who doesn’t threaten my peace of mind or parole prospects? More
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Tonight, @SuzanneNossel joins @michele_norris, @jelani9, @CJLspeaks2, and moderator @RogerLWPhD to discuss race, racial justice, civil discourse, and free speech in higher education at the DDNRC biennial conference.
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Mahmoud Abu Zeid was detained after photographing the 2013 dispersal of a protest, during which Egyptian security forces killed at least 817 people. There has been no public explanation as to why he remains in jail. https://t.co/q5Xfm3fMeb
Although the president can launch verbal tirades against the press, he cannot use the powers of his office to suppress or punish speech he doesn’t like—that constitutes a violation of the First Amendment. https://t.co/eD0H6huMhr