Diane Ravitch
‘Their Kind of Indoctrination’

For a range of far-right activists, Trump’s second term will be a chance to discipline public schools—and ultimately defund them.

Nathan Shields
‘Every Carnival Has Its End’

A recent performance by the Santa Fe Opera of Don Giovanni showed what is gained—and what is lost—in demystifying its demon protagonist.

Study Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady with Merve Emre

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Jenny Uglow
Hallelujah!

In his book Every Valley, Charles King explains the enduring appeal of Handel’s Messiah since its premiere in Dublin nearly three hundred years ago.

Jan-Werner Müller
‘Destruction Through Inclusion’

“The [Austrian] center right is teaching its traditional electorate that extremist views are perfectly normal. Instead of fixating on the ‘populist wave,’ we should keep a close eye on conservative elites.”

Free from the Archives

Today is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s sixty-first birthday. For our July 10, 2014, issue, Steve Coll reviewed The Everything Store, Brad Stone’s account of both Bezos’s life and Amazon’s transformation from an upstart digital bookstore into the kind of corporate behemoth that saw fit to prevent customers from preordering Stone’s book in paperback, or from preordering other titles from Stone’s publisher.

Steve Coll
Citizen Bezos

“The real problem of ‘the Age of Amazon’…does not concern antitrust economics or consumer prices. It concerns the future of reading and writing. There is no evidence that high retail book prices today discourage reading. The problem is the opposite: because of the digital revolution, the price of information has collapsed in a very short time. Free news, stories, YouTube videos, games, and other content generated by users but enabled by online aggregators and pirates have undermined the leverage of authors and publishers who depend on copyright protection to make a living.”

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