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Punishing the People We Claim to Protect
Gaby Del Valle reviews Kimberly Meyer’s “Accidental Sisters” and Susan J. Terrio’s “Forced Out.”
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The “Correlation” Between Statistics and Eugenics
In the second essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Aubrey Clayton excavates the troubling correlation between the birth of statistical methods...
Do Public Schools Bring Us Together or Tear Us Apart?
Is school choice compatible with a national lesson plan? Johann N. Neem considers a radical new proposal from Ashley Rogers Berner.
How Israel Lost America
Saree Makdisi writes on the student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Tales of Transformation in China
Pallavi Aiyar explores how the youth navigate the precarity of contemporary China in her review of two new books by Alec Ash and Yuan Yang.
Poor Reading, Weak Theory: An Excerpt from “The Amateur”
LARB presents an excerpt from Saikat Majumdar’s “The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony.”
“Chinatown” at 50, or Seeing Oil Through Cinema
Michael Rubenstein writes on the 50th anniversary of “Chinatown” and the beginning of the end of petromodernity.
An Unforgettable Miscarriage of Justice
Laurie Levenson reviews Ronald Collins’s “Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial.”
The DMZ at 70
Matthew Longo reflects on the surreal experience of the DMZ, where borders create both division and unity.
Why Frantz Fanon Changed His Name: On Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic”
Robert J. C. Young reviews Adam Shatz’s “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.”
What’s Left of Originalism? On Jack M. Balkin’s “Memory and Authority”
Andrew Koppelman critiques Jack Balkin’s ”Memory and Authority.”
House of Cards: On Sean H. Vanatta’s “Plastic Capitalism”
Carey Mott reviews Sean H. Vanatta’s “Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control.”
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