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A black and white photograph from 1908 showing Eugene Debs giving a campaign speech to supporters during his campaign , the third of his five runs for president

The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Tireless Socialist

A new biography of Eugene Debs makes clear that in the United States, the story of socialism is really the story of opposition to socialism.

Jeremy Strong playing Mark Zuckerberg wears headphones and stares straight ahead. Tom Cruise, playing Digger Rockwell, hovers over a fluffy white cat with a pained expression.

The Unbearable, Unstoppable Moguls of Digger and The Social Reckoning

Two movies, two unfolding catastrophes. And in both movies, holding the rich to account is an epic struggle.

Alex Shephard, Mark Krotov

Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate

Anne Carson looks bemused

Alex Shephard, Mark Krotov

Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate

Books & the Arts

An illustration of a person reading an opaque book

Reading Is Not Dying

Reports of a literacy crisis misunderstand the way we read today.

Promotional still from the movie Fjord: Renate Reinsve as Lisbet on right, adjusts the tie of Sebastian Stan who plays her husband Mihai Gheorghiu.

Fjord Puts a Family—and a Country—on Trial

Cristian Mungiu’s film plays the story of a Romanian family investigated by child protective services in Norway for maximum ambiguity.