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Jack Hanson
Last Rites

Executions prevent any possibility that the condemned might someday reconcile with the world, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church maintains that they are “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” So why do powerful American Catholics still support the practice?

Christopher R. Browning
Hitler’s Enablers

The complicity of conservative nationalists in the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 offers disturbing parallels to the current American political situation.

On the Election

Ten New York Review contributors consider the United States’ sixtieth presidential election, on subjects ranging from the psyches of undecided voters to America’s foreign policy failures, the country’s ongoing housing crisis, and the candidates’ silence on climate change and Palestine.

Jacqueline Rose
Antigone’s Law

Who can make the world a better place?

Mark Lilla
Another Change Election

On the need to preserve our institutions

Lara Putnam
Pennsylvania’s Grassroots Revival

Since 2017, middle-aged women have been rebuilding the state’s Democratic party infrastructure, not just in its liberal suburbs but in its rural Republican strongholds.

Fintan O’Toole
Playing for Time

With the boisterous energy of direct speech, the novelist Ferdia Lennon takes on both the playfulness and the harsh realism of Euripides.

Election 2024

The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing aspects of the 2024 presidential election. In each conversation, held on Zoom, our contributors discuss the critical issues of our time. You may register for the final two conversations in this series at the links below.

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Mark Danner, Pamela Karlan, and Fintan O’Toole
What If He Wins? A Conversation About Trump and the Law

October 30, 4:00 PM EDT
Timothy Garton Ash and Timothy Snyder
‘For Our Freedom and Yours’: Ukraine, Europe, and the US Election

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