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Our September 25 issue—the Fall Books issue—is now online, with Trevor Jackson on the “abundance” agenda’s reheated deregulation, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Jane Austen’s ephemera, Mark O’Connell on war profiteering 2.0, Lorrie Moore on Miriam Toews, Martin Filler on the art of the department store, Linda Greenhouse on the inescapable fact of abortion, Howard W. French on Patrice Lumumba, Nathaniel Rich on Martian mania, Mark Lilla and Osita Nwanevu on William F. Buckley, E. Tammy Kim on the legacy of the WTO protests, Kwame Anthony Appiah on the First Amendment, poems by Hala al-Shrouf, Théophile de Viau, and Khaled Juma, and much more.

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Watch What You Say

Fara Dabhoiwala considers the right to free speech the con at the heart of the Constitution because of the harms it permits. But what about the harms it prevents?

Ruth Bernard Yeazell
The Significance of Trivial Things

Exhibitions and books commemorating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday call attention to the ways in which she transmuted the ephemera of her life into the precious treasures that figure in her novels.

Trevor Jackson
How to Blow Up a Planet

For liberal supporters of the “abundance” movement, deregulation is crucial to solving climate and economic crises.

Howard W. French
‘A Damn Nuisance’

Patrice Lumumba’s vision for a newly independent Congo fell victim to historical circumstances that were too powerful for him to overcome.

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