Relegant Index
What’s New
- The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer. Now It’s Killing Us.
- by Ryan Busse; The Atlantic, Jul. 25, 2022
- An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy
- by John Blake; CNN, Jul. 24, 2022
- Body politics: the secret history of the U.S. anti-abortion movement
- by Sarah Churchwell; The Guardian, Jul. 23, 2022
- Why codifying Roe will land right back at the Supreme Court
- by Victoria Nourse; CNN, Jun. 30, 2022
- Republicans have hijacked the US supreme court. It’s time to expand it
- by David Daley; The Guardian, Jun. 27, 2022
- The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is
- by Adam Serwer; The Atlantic, Jun. 25, 2022
- America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
- by Ronald Brownstein; The Atlantic, Jun. 24, 2022
- Make Progressive Politics Constitutional Again
- by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath; Boston Review, Jun. 23, 2022
- Dark Money Built the Supreme Court’s Radical Conservative Supermajority
- by Andrew Perez and Aditi Ramaswami; Jacobin, June 23, 2022
- Did Trump believe his big lie? It’s irrelevant to proving his guilt.
- by Ryan Goodman, Norman Eisen and Barbara McQuade; Washington Post, Jun. 22, 2022
- Peter Thiel helped build Facebook, now he's building a new anti-tech right
- by Elizabeth Dwoskin; Washington Post, Jun. 19, 2022
- Counting on the Supreme Court to uphold key rights was always a mistake
- by Samuel Moyn; Washington Post, Jun. 17, 2022
- The January 6 hearings aren’t acknowledging the elephant in the room
- by Thomas Zimmer; The Guardian, Jun. 17, 2022
- Gavin Newsom’s Case for a More Aggressive Democratic Party
- by Ronald Brownstein; The Atlantic, Jun. 17, 2022
- There's no way to fix the Second Amendment. Let's just get rid of it
- by Bill Press; CNN, Jun. 09, 2022
- The Atrocity of American Gun Culture
- by Jelani Cobb; The New Yorker, May 29, 2022
- Americans believe nothing is getting better. Biden feeds that disillusionment
- by David Sirota; The Guardian, Apr. 29, 2022
- Opinion: The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election
- by J. Michael Luttig; CNN, Apr. 27, 2022
- Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense
- by Robert Reich; The Guardian, Apr. 12, 2022
- The U.S. Needs a New Strategy Toward the Autocratic World
- by Anne Applebaum; The Atlantic; Mar. 15, 2022
- Could Russia and Vladimir Putin lose in Ukraine? Here’s why Francis Fukuyama is optimistic.
- by Greg Sargent; Washington Post, Mar. 14, 2022
- Putin’s pre-invasion moves against Google and Apple laid tech groundwork for crackdown.
- by Greg Miller and Joseph Menn; Washington Post, Mar. 12, 2022
- ‘The Scheme’: a senator’s plan to highlight rightwing influence on the supreme court
- by David Smith; The Guardian, Feb. 22, 2022
- Why the White House stopped telling the truth about inflation and corporate power
- by Robert Reich; The Guardian, Feb. 20, 2022
- The Reason Putin Would Risk War
- by Anne Applebaum; The Atlantic, Feb. 3, 2022
- What’s really wrong with the mainstream media
- by Robert Reich; The Guardian, Dec. 9, 2021
- How Donald Trump Could Subvert the 2024 Election
- by Barton Gellman; The Atlantic, Dec. 6, 2021
- How to Fend Off Trump’s Next Coup
- by George Packer; The Atlantic, Dec. 6, 2021
- The ‘stench’ of politicization: Sonia Sotomayor’s supreme court warning
- The Guardian, Dec. 4, 2021
- Beyond the Stench: Reflections on Violence, Fascism, and Revolution
- by Paul Street; CounterPunch, Dec. 3, 2021
- How America’s Realtors Repurposed Freedom to Defend Segregation
- by Gene Slater; The Atlantic, Nov. 29, 2021
- Supreme Court decisions on abortion, guns, more loom from newly radicalized institution
- Washington Post, Nov. 28, 2021 (long read)
- Trump stoked Covid in red states – but there are blue anti-vaxxers too
- by Robert Reich; The Guardian, Nov. 28, 2021
- Why does the media keep saying this election was a loss for Democrats? It wasn’t
- by Rebecca Solnit; The Guardian, Nov. 6, 2021
- True conservatives should support filibuster reform
- by E.J. Dionne; Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2021
- Our constitutional crisis is already here
- by Robert Kagan; Washington Post, Sept. 23, 2021
- The Four Americas
- by George Packer; The Atlantic, July/Aug. 2021
Articles of Note: Climate Change
- The rightwing US supreme court has climate protection in its sights
- by Laurence H. Tribe and Jeremy Lewin; The Guardian, Feb. 28, 2022
- This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats
- by Bill McKibben; The Guardian, Feb. 25, 2022
- Think big on climate: the transformation of society in months has been done before
- by George Monbiot; The Guardian, Oct. 20, 2021
- Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook
- by Rebecca Solnit; The Guardian, Aug. 23, 2021
- Our climate change turning point is right here, right now
- by Rebecca Solnit; The Guardian, July 12, 2021
- Could Climate Change Be More Extreme Than We Think?
- by Peter Brannen; The Atlantic, Mar. 2021
Articles of Note: General
- Fundamentals of Piano Practice
- Online ebook
- Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
- by Jonathan Haidt; The Atlantic, Apr. 11, 2022
- What We Misunderstand About WWII
- by Daniel Immerwahr; The Atlantic, Apr. 4, 2022
- The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age
- by Arthur C. Brooks; The Atlantic, Feb. 17, 2022
- How Wanting Less Leads to Satisfaction
- by Arthur C. Brooks; The Atlantic, Feb. 8, 2022
- An Unlikely Meditation on Modern Happiness: Rereading Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling”
- by Ryan Kemp; The Hedgehog Review, Feb. 3, 2022
- The Problem With 'No Regrets'
- by Arthur C. Brooks; The Atlantic, Feb. 3, 2022
- How much sleep is enough? Study says focus on consistency, too.
- by Pam Moore; Washington Post, Apr. 30, 2021
- How to fix the American system without amending the Constitution
- by Squarely Rooted; Medium, Feb. 16, 2020
- How to Fix Social Media
- by Nicholas Carr; The New Atlantis, Fall 2021
- In Praise of Idleness
- by Bertrand Russell; Harper's, Oct. 1932
- Japan Dome House
- Review: "Spinoza's Religion"
- by Clare Carlisle; Prospect Magazine
- Whose Freedom Counts? Anti-lockdown protesters are twisting the idea of liberty.
- by Dahlia Lithwick; Slate, May 7, 2020
- Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame it on the "spontaneous fluctuations"
- Salon.com
- Why Musicians Need Philosophy
- by Roger Scruton; Future Symphony Institute
- Why Standard Time is better
- by Michael Herf; Medium
- I still love Kierkegaard
- by Julian Baggini; Aeon Magazine, May 6, 2013
- George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year
- New York Times, Jan. 6, 2013
- Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down
- The Chronicle, May 1, 2009
- When meditation turns toxic: the woman exposing spiritual sexism
- The Guardian, Dec. 8, 2021