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Eve Fairbanks traces the experiences of three South Africans to diagnose the country’s unrealized promises.

She Said and Women Talking examine the collective power of women’s words for a MeToo era.

“The buses have stopped coming,” says Katarina Ramos, “but there’s still a need for services for the people who were transported here.”

Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.

Iconoclasm isn’t just an expression of anger. It’s how we try to make new worlds. 

While teaching in a prison, I got to know a gardener.

Patience is said to be a virtue. Said, at least, by parents to demanding children. But where does resigned passivity end and active patience begin?

Richard Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book Anti-intellectualism in American Life was published 60 years ago this month. In it, the historian suggests that American culture has recast the role of the intellect as a vice instead of a virtue, diminishing expertise while glorifying the plain sense of the common person. Anti-intellectualism, he writes, is “a resentment . . .

The administration’s reaction to a classroom conflict reveals a deeper problem in higher ed.