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The End of the Public Intellectual October 09, 2024
In August, the celebrated writer Ta-Nehisi Coates published a new column in Vanity Fair. It was his first piece for the magazine in four years, and his first anywhere in a very long time. In every sense, it marked his return: his fourth nonfiction bo...
How Woke is Woke? October 08, 2024
Scarcely had the embers of Minneapolis stopped smoldering in 2020 before a wave of pundits and public intellectuals began claiming that we’d already passed “peak woke,” that none of it was really worth discussing anymore, and that “wokeness” had most...
