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Why it's important to avoid casually adopting harmful arguments, like accusing Trump of "treason"...

Don’t Use The Right’s Assumptions To Make The Left’s Arguments | Current Affairs
Sooner or later, anyone trying to advance a political cause will encounter the same difficult question: in trying to persuade people, should I make the argument most likely to be effective, or just say what I actually believe? For example, if I oppose the death penalty, and I want to convince other....
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This man makes some very good points (and tells some very outrageous lies) about our magazine.

A Bit More Magic Appears in the Universe – Ben Wrobel – Medium
Nathan J. Robinson is a gift to our country
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Why the logic of efficiency sucks the fun and magic out of the universe...

A Bit More Magic Disappears From The Universe | Current Affairs
During my sophomore year of college, I lived in a leaky old castle. It was a wonderful place, built by an eccentric during the 1920s, acquired by Brandeis University a few decades later, and turned from a veterinary school into an undergraduate dormitory. Hardly anything in its design made rational....
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While the U.S. deported millions of ordinary workers, a war criminal lived freely in New England for decades...

A Tale Of Two Atrocities | Current Affairs
In the ongoing public furor over immigration, there is often a tendency to lump all immigrants together into one amorphous class, ignoring the diverse contexts from which these millions of individuals come. Even well-meaning liberals, in their quest to make immigrants seem non-threatening, sometimes...
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Do guns kill people, or do people kill people? Both, really, but the guns certainly don't help...

What Kills People | Current Affairs
The “guns don’t kill people” slogan is an ingenious bit of political rhetoric, because it frames the debate over guns in a way that captures the core dispute between the conservatives and liberal worldviews. If you are a liberal, you tend to believe that what people do is in great measure a pr...
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Could YOU be an opinion columnist for The New York Times? See if you've got what it takes to be a pundit for our Paper of Record...

Could YOU Be A New York Times Opinion Columnist? | Current Affairs
Thank you for your interest in contributing to the New York Times opinion page. Before we get started, we just need to run a quick background check. To start, please open your latest Pottery Barn catalog to page 15. If you don’t get the Pottery Barn catalog, there’s no need to continue filling o...
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Why does inequality actually matter?

Why Equality Is Indispensable | Current Affairs
Inequality has been talked about so much that it can be easy to forget why it matters. Today, it’s seen as one of the defining issues of our time even by the plutocrats at the Davos conference. Their particular worries may spring mostly from self-interest (see venture capitalist Nick Hanauer’s w...
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"The pigs in Richard Scarry's Busytown books never seem to question where their pork dishes come from..."

Living In Busytown | Current Affairs
I had never lived in an apartment with a balcony before. I always lived on the first floor. If I stood at my window, I would be just above the eye-level of pedestrians. Being inside gave me roughly the same perspective on the street as being outside, except through a pane of glass. But the balcony c...
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Is the concept of "microaggression" useful?

The “Microaggression” Concept | Current Affairs
For critics of Campus Social Justice Identity Politics, no concept better exemplifies what’s wrong with young activist-types than “microaggression.” Just about every time you see a rant about hypersensitive “snowflakes,” you will see some derisive remark about how on today’s college camp...
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The U.S. media's inexcusable failure to report on violence in Mexico... https://www.currentaffairs.org/…/the-u-s-medias-failure-to-…

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Next month: Current Affairs editor Briahna Joy Gray speaks at the Harvard Law Forum about identity politics. Free and open to the public!

MAR22
Policing Identity in Trump's America: Briahna Joy Gray at HLS
Thu 12:00 PM EDTHarvard Law School, Wasserstein Campus Center, Room #1015
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How much is frivolous spending justified? Are people morally required to be joyless ascetics?

Does Caring About Other People Mean You Have To Be A Joyless Ascetic? | Current Affairs
Whenever I write something criticizing the rich for doing things I find inexcusably wasteful and immoral, such as designing luxury Hawaiian shirts covered in bags of money or firing a convertible into space, I inevitably get the same email, the gist of which is roughly “If you think billionaires s...
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How capitalism devours the most romantic parts of great cities...

Everything You Love Will Be Eaten Alive | Current Affairs
Here are two different visions for what a city ought to be. Vision 1: the city ought to be a hub of growth and innovation, clean, well-run, high-tech, and business-friendly. It ought to attract the creative class, the more the better, and be a dynamic contributor to the global economy. It should be....
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Companies are constantly thinking of new "Bullshit Financial Products" that can siphon consumers' money away...

Nothing For Money | Current Affairs
In consumer finance, there are three kinds of shadiness: fraudulence, dubiousness, and bullshit. First, there are the outright criminal acts, like Wells Fargo opening millions of accounts in people’s name without their permission, or the swindlers who call pretending to be the IRS or tech support ...
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How should the state address exploitation? Not through cracking down on sex work, but by improving conditions for all workers...

Laissez Le Sex Work Rouler | Current Affairs
When I was a child, a woman named Teresa* shared a close friend with my mother in our neighborhood, back when we lived in French public housing. Teresa was a sex worker. But she didn’t fit my imagined stereotype of a prostitute, which had already been shaped by the media at the tender age of nine....
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