Dream Team
Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
See You In Court
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“The law won’t save liberals from politics. But politics, if resuscitated and revived, might save them from the law—and achieve more than even the most progressive Supreme Court ever could.”
Read “Courting Disaster” by Ian MacDougall
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“It is often said that our Constitution is alive. As the Supreme Court reinterprets the law in different eras, our rights both grow and diminish—sometimes with glacial slowness, sometimes with breathtaking speed”
Read “Privacies of Life” by Paul Bender
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On the politics of abortion after Roe v. Wade.
Read “The Fight to Choose” by our Washington Editor Andrew Cockburn
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“It is difficult to escape the conclusion that it is precisely because their ideological goals are politically unachievable that they have turned to the courts.”
Freudian Slip-Up
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In our April issue, Maggie Doherty explores the internal reckoning within the American Psychoanalytic Association.
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“The fact that belief in the uncertain—what Keats called negative capability—signifies psychotherapy’s only real certainty is one way in which Freud still haunts the tents of this vast bazaar of self-improvement, though my professional brethren might prefer to forget it.”
Read “The War on Unhappiness” by Gary Greenberg
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“The disappearance of psychoanalysis would only augur a future of increased de-humanization.”
Read Donald M. Kaplan on the decline of psychoanalysis as a craft
Hoop Dreams
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“In Coney Island the possibility of transcendence through basketball is an article of faith.”
Read “The Last Shot” by Darcy Frey
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On sneaker culture.
Read “Joint Ventures” by Charles Bock
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“I visited the SuperBook during the first weekend of March Madness.”
Read “Vegas Odds” by John Paul Rollert
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How elite youth basketball exploits African athletes.
Read “American Hustle” by Alexandra Starr
Emerging from Hibernation
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A poetic essay on the “loosening and freeing of the spirit” occasioned by the arrival of spring.
Reed “Alaskan Spring” by John Meade Haines