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Jonathan Mingle
An EPA Without Science

The agency’s rollbacks under Lee Zeldin suggest that Trump’s war on the administrative state has become, effectively, a war on the future.

Alice Kaplan
Zionism Without Zion

Rachel Cockerell’s family saga shows that in the search for a Jewish homeland, Palestine was only one possible location.

Sari Bashi
Gaza: Starvation and Exile

The Israeli government has announced plans to make civilians in the Strip accept further displacement as a condition of receiving food—and eventually to push them out of Palestine altogether.

Nina Siegal
The Spy in the Jeu de Paume

The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.

The Dybbuk

a poem by
Boris Dralyuk

From the parched courtyards of our past
they grope toward us in the night,
the desperate shades of schnooks, outcast
before their debts are paid. One might
be in me as I speak, stuck fast. . . . 

Sophie Pinkham
‘Isn’t Reality Sad Enough?’

In the films of the Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, characters are always tipping toward both laughter and violence.

Free from the Archives

This weekend in the NYR Online, Jonathan Mingle assesses the damage done to the Environmental Protection Agency—and the environment—by Donald Trump and his new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin.

“For most Americans, last summer was one of the hottest on record,” wrote Bill McKibben in the Review’s December 8, 1988, issue. Occasioned by a draft report from the EPA predicting “global temperature increases of 3.6 degrees Celsius (6.5 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2040,” McKibben’s essay evaluated the relatively new science and argued that it was time to listen to the experts in the field, who were already in a fairly wide consensus about the “greenhouse effect” caused by burning fossil fuels.

Bill McKibben
Is the World Getting Hotter?

“Dealing with carbon dioxide, however, will be much harder. Aside from the harm caused by tropical deforestation (burning the rain forests contributes as much as a fifth of the annual human contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere) the problem is that we in the West use too much fossil fuel.”

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