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Our February 22 issue is now online, with Sean Wilentz on the Supreme Court’s duty to disqualify Trump, Emily Raboteau on mothering Earth, Larry Wolff on a new Carmen, Andrew O’Hagan on the dissimulating George Santos, Rachel Nolan on the desecration of the Amazon, Natalie de Souza on the riddles of Alzheimer’s, Robyn Creswell on al-Andalus, Ava Kofman on Reality Winner and the surveillance state, Gary Saul Morson on Putin’s Eurasian fantasia, poems by Jim Moore and Ange Mlinko, and more.
Andrew O’Hagan
The Talented Mr. Santos
A man in perpetual flight from reality, George Santos invents stories about himself with no regard for believability.
Natalie de Souza
The Dark Tangle of Alzheimer’s
Recent breakthroughs in dementia treatments have been hailed as successes, but after decades of disappointing research it is difficult to be optimistic.
Gary Saul Morson
Russian Exceptionalism
After the fall of the USSR, liberalism, considered foreign, was overwhelmed by various types of nationalism, one of which, Eurasianism, seems to have achieved the status of a semiofficial ideology.
David A. Bell
An Unlikely Life
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is a biopic that manages to omit or distort most of the central elements of Napoleon’s life and career.
