Jonathan Mingle
Lights Out

The passage of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will be remembered as the moment that the US turned its back on the energy future.

Doha Kahlout, translated by Yasmine Seale
The Road from Gaza

I did not blame myself for leaving. There was only a quiet failure to grasp why surviving is so bitter.

Jarrett Earnest
‘I Am the Heir to Delacroix’

“Painting’s great power lies in the fact that it is made of matter. Jack Whitten understood this matter in relation to light; how matter creates light from color, modulates it across surfaces, holds it in its depths.”

Tariq Mir
Kashmir: Death and the River

In the aftermath of India and Pakistan’s four-day war in May, peace remains elusive. A major fault line will be over water.

Free from the Archives

One hundred and thirty-one years ago today, the Pullman strike in Chicago—and the nationwide train boycott that resulted—came to an end. In the preceding three months, after trains across the country ground to a halt, President Grover Cleveland deployed some 12,000 US army troops to quell the strike, and at least thirty strikers were killed.

In the Review’s May 1, 1980, issue, Richard Sennett wrote about the history of paternalism in the nineteenth-century United States, “a sentimental picture of a kindly father, superimposed on the face of a boss or a political leader” that supported the in loco parentis model of factory employment and societal discipline and concealed the abuses of the industrial revolution.

Richard Sennett
Our Hearts Belong to Daddy

Perhaps the most dramatic case of an employer seeking to become the leader of a paternalistic community was that of George Pullman, president of the Pullman Palace Car Company based in Pullman, Illinois. His efforts ended in disaster, showing the peculiar hazards to which paternalistic social organization and personal authority were subject in industrial society.

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