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Argument
The Frozen Trucker and the Fugitive Slave
On the TransAm Trucking case, legal reasoning, and the Fugitive Slave Act.3 Quarks Daily -
Longread
The Insulin Empire
Insulin transforms a sick body. It also has the potential to reconstitute our political economic realities.The Baffler -
Comment
The CUNY Experiment
The City University of New York has long stood at once for meritocratic uplift and for civil disobedience.New York Review of Books -
Book Excerpt
A Forgotten Athlete, a Nazi Official, and the Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics
In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.The New Yorker -
Book Review
California Communism and Its Afterlives
A new book explores the Communist Party's western base and its alliance with the labor movement.Los Angeles Review of Books -
Dispatch
‘Unless Jesus Christ Was Running’: In MAGA Country, Post-Verdict Trump is Still the Answer
Eugene Debs ran for president from prison. His former bellwether county — and museum — both hold lessons for Trump’s campaign.Politico -
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Reading About Reading
Read up on the history of books.
From the HNN Archive
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Why Aren’t Libraries Saving These Gossip Rags?
To reconstruct the story of queer America, we need to open up its tabloids. -
On the Road to Ruin with Their Characteristic Speed
Waiting for the start of the American Civil War in Canada and the Caribbean. -
A Kind of Historical Faith
On literature masquerading as primary source. -
Learning From Zionism’s Jewish Critics
A reading list from the author of a new — and newly timely — book. -
Super Chief
Reconsidering Earl Warren’s place in U.S. history.