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Aaron Regunberg

An Economist’s Plan to Fight Fascism Through Lower Prices

Isabella Weber traces how hard times fuel the authoritarian right, and shows how an “economics of essentials” can combat it.

The author Tove Ditlevsen wearing a hat and resting her chin on her hand

The Tell-All Memoirist Who Shied Away From Fame

Tove Ditlevsen saw up close the fine line between the confessional and the salacious, between being a public figure and an object of prurience.

Katherine Stewart

The Women Spreading the Gospel of MAGA

Christian podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey on stage at the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Texas, in June 2025

Katherine Stewart

The Women Spreading the Gospel of MAGA

Books & the Arts

An illustration of a pregnant woman being monitored to illustrate the thesis of the book FALLOW

Anna Louie Sussman

Surrogacy and Big Tech Collide in Fallow

Sarah Anderson’s novel about a surrogate is also a novel about crappy jobs and bad bosses.

A black and white episodic image from the historical drama Fatherland starting Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler,

On the Road With Thomas Mann

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, starring Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller, maps postwar Germany’s fault lines through a family drama.