Undebatable
Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Yikes
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Lewis Lapham on the 2016 presidential campaign: “A camera addresses a valued customer, not a valuable citizen, substitutes for the rule of law the rule of men, men as images so graven in gold that, like the Phrygian king Midas, they lose the freedom of movement and thought.”
Read “Bombast Bursting in Air”
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Lapham on debating: “It has been so long since I have seen anybody win an argument that I have come to think that the thing cannot be done.”
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A toolkit for handling debate-night curveballs.
Read “A Debater's Guide to Tough Questions” by Myles Martel
Julian Assange: A Free Man
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The former general counsel of the New York Times on the legal battle surrounding WikiLeaks.
Read “More Than a Data Dump” by James C. Goodale
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Andrew Cockburn on how the media failed Assange.
Pride!
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A forum taking stock of the legacy of Stonewall.
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A trip to “Bride Pride: The World’s Largest All-Girl Wedding and Renewal Ceremony.”
Read “Like Never Before” by Naomi Gordon-Loebl
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“We do a little more than we think we are capable of doing, in the place and moment where history has put us.“
Read “The Future of Queer” by Fenton Johnson
It’s Too Darn Hot
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“O Days that crush the city’s iron heart/With heavy heat and burdening gifts of fire/When will ye cease, when will ye depart/Relentless now with torturing desire?”
Read “Summer in the City” by Charles Hanson Towne