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At a perilous American moment, the Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains why he wanted to read The Turner Diaries.

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Welcome to the era of late-stage conspiracism.

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A conversation with Julie K. Brown, the investigative reporter who knows more than almost anyone else about Jeffrey Epstein

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Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law.

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To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.