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His People Patricia Lockwood His Politics michelle dean: The feminist awakening of Adrienne Rich P.58 MAY 2016 Why Ted Cruz is What teen girls David Chang’s The Hum: You’ll Chasing after more dangerous really want on newest venture is a know it when Vladimir Nabokov’s than Trump P.18 social media P.69 movable feast P.6 you hear it P.50 butterfliesP.78 HIS PEOPLE PATRICIA LOCKWOOD HIS POLITICS BRIAN BEUTLER HIS CULTURE JEET HEER PoliticalPhilosophy_NewRepublic_4C.qxp_Layout 1 3/18/16 10:01 AM Page 1 What is Justice? he goal of political philosophy is to deter- T mine the standards by which we judge different institutions good or bad, just or un- just. Political Philosophy: An Introductionserves as a primer on some of the major theories of justice, to the arguments philosophers have made for and against these theories, and, ulti- mately, to how to be more thoughtful and rig- orous in your own thinking. EBOOK: $3.99 olitical Philosophy is the latest in a series of self-paced, P online guides from Libertarianism.org. These guides— videos and accompanying text—are taught by top professors and experts. They introduce the basic ideas and principles of a free and flourishing society and serve as a path to further learning. See details at Libertarianism.org/Guides. AVAILABLE AT CATO.ORG/STORE AND EBOOK RETAILERS NATIONWIDE. A PROJECT OF THE CATO INSTITUTE contents MAY 2016 18 Beyond Good and Evil 28 The virtues of being Ted Cruz. Lost in Trumplandia BY CLANCY MARTIN It’s his country now—we just vote in it. BY PATRICIA LOCKWOOD 46 Paradise Lost 38 Cooling down the world’s cities, one rooftop at a time. Trump the Disrupter PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRAD TEMKIN Is America’s democratic system equal to the challenge of an authoritarian president? BY BRIAN BEUTLER 50 A Maddening Sound Is the Hum, a mysterious noise 42 heard around the world, science or mass delusion? Republic of Fear BY COLIN DICKEY Even if he loses the election, Trumpism is here to stay. BY JEET HEER COLUMNS UP FRONT REVIEW 4 The internet makes 8 Social media has 58 Adrienne Rich’s 74 Jill Lepore rewrites the critical information changed the definition feminist awakening, history of a Greenwich accessible. Now of activism. glimpsed through her Village hero. let’s make it usable. BY NAVNEET ALANG unpublished letters. BY EVAN KINDLEY BY PAUL FORD BY MICHELLE DEAN 9 McGovern’s prophetic 78 Did Vladimir 6 Home delivery 1972 campaign. 66 The Metropolitan Nabokov’s literary fame is the new frontier BY JOSHUA MOUND Museum makes a overshadow his for restaurateurs. bid for the modern. scientific achievements? 11 Profiting from Harper BY CORBY KUMMER BY IAN VOLNER BY LAURA MARSH Lee’s legacy. BY ALEX SHEPHARD 69 For teenage girls on 81 Life and death social media, attention among the gangs of 13 Ellen Ullman’s radical is a way to be heard. Central America. vision for Silicon Valley. BY ELSPETH REEVE BY SARAH ESTHER MASLIN BY ANNA WIENER 72 The tenants and 84 Backstory 16 China’s “weird” landlords caught PHOTOGRAPH BY architecture is a global in America’s vicious EDOUARD ELIAS power play. cycle of eviction. BY BIANCA BOSKER BY BRANDON HARRIS COVER ILLUSTRATION BY POETRY 73 Men Are Pointless BY DOROTHEA LASKY | 83 Black Glove BY D.A. POWELL DANIEL ZENDER FIELD PORTRAITS The NEW REPUBLIC’s series on the indelible political figures of the 2016 election by leading literary writers. Chief Executive Officer Patricia Lockwood, a poet, journeyed to the Live Free or Die Guy Vidra state to chronicle Trump’s triumph in the New Hampshire primary. Chief Executive Officer GuyEditor Vidra in Chief Director, People and Finance During his victory rally she became a true American hero in her own Gabriel Snyder Paul Biboud-Lubeck right—coming to the aid of a fainting young woman. “She was swaying Controller ExecutiveEditor In Chief Editor DavidChief MyerRevenue Officer back and forth, obviously about to face plant, and the dudes around Gabriel Snyder Kayvan Salmanpour Ryan Kearney Director of Digital Design her were just watching with their hands in their pockets, with looks on Culture Editor SilasChief Burton Product Officer their faces like, Let the free market decide!” LOST IN TRUMPLANDIA, P. 28 Eliot Pierce ExecutiveMichelle Legro Web Editor Director of Software PoliticsRyan Kearney Editor Gregg Meluski Clancy Martin, a Calgarian (like Ted Cruz), was raised by FeaturesBob Moser Director ProductDirector, Manager New Republic Creative a questionably stable preacher (like Ted Cruz), is uncomfortable at FeaturesTheodore Directors Ross MaxAmelia Zimbert Pisapia parties (like Ted Cruz), and, due to his work on the philosophy of StorySasha Editor Belenky, Theodore Ross Digital Operations Director DeputyChloë Schama Editor SeniorMark Lewis Director, Marketing deception, has been referred to as “The Lie Guy” (somewhat catchier ManagingRyu Spaeth Editor ErikaProduct Velazquez Designer than “Lyin’ Ted”). His most recent novel is Bad Sex (as for Ted Cruz… StoryElaine Editor Teng SeniorSilas Burton Integrated Marketing Manager well, no one’s saying). BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, P. 18 PoetryLaura Marsh Editor EvelynDirector Frison of Finance & Operations ManagingCathy Park Editor Hong Paul Biboud-Lubeck Elaine Teng ViceController President of Sales PoetrySenior EditorsEditor SuzanneDavid Myer Grossman contributors CathyBrian Beutler, Park Hong Jeet Heer, AdvertisingAssistant To Account The Publisher Manager Suzy Khimm, Elspeth Reeve, NanoGenevieve Fabuss Powers Michelle Dean, a contributing editor at the new republic, felt Senior Editors Jamil Smith, Rebecca Traister SalesAssistant Intern To The Chief Brian Beutler, Jeet Heer, very lucky when she stumbled on a cache of Adrienne Rich’s letters Shawn Awan Elspeth Reeve Executive Officer to Hayden Carruth, like the scholars in A.S. Byatt’s Possession. “I read Staff Writers Molly Wraight them in perhaps two days altogether, all one thousand pages,” she said. ContributingChristopher Beam, Editors New Republic Advisory Board Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, William A. Ackman “I read a lot of letters; these are some of the best I’ve come across.” James Burnett, Alexander Chee, Senior Director, Brand Marketing Rebecca Leber, Danny Vinik Soraya Darabi Ben Crair, Michelle Dean, Erika Velazquez THE WRECK, P. 58 Siddhartha Deb, Michael Eric Dyson, Andrew Essex Senior Manager, Audience Paul Ford, Ted Genoways, Laurence Grafstein Art Director Development Colin Dickey, author of the forthcoming Ghostland: An American William Giraldi, Dana Goldstein, Jason Hirschhorn Parker Hubbard Diana Ryan Kathryn Joyce, Suki Kim, Joel Hyatt History in Haunted Places, does not hear the mysterious auditory Production Director Maria Konnikova, Corby Kummer, Alberto Ibargüen Pam Brandt phenomenon known as “the Hum.” But writing his story has made him Jen Percy, Jamil Smith, JonathanIntegrated Jones Marketing Director “listen to the world a little differently,” he said. “I’m more attentive GraemeProduction Wood, Manager Robert Wright SachinChristopher Kamdar Donovan Kim Watkins Jay Rosen to a lot of noise that I used to more successfully block out of my head.” Art Director Mickie Rosen Integrated Account Manager A MADDENING SOUND, P. 50 Parker Hubbard Marjorie Scardino Dan Horowitz Associate Editors Paul Steiger MikaelaPhoto Director Lefrak, Adam Peck, 646-779-8018 ([email protected]) Stephanie Heimann Phil Terry Jeet Heer, a senior editor at the new republic, is a Sikh, born in Bijan Stephen Advertising Account Manager Punjab, which influenced his decision to write about the long-term AssistantProduction Editor Director Craig Harris Pamela Brandt 646-779-8019 ([email protected]) impact of Trump’s presidential run. “I kept reading these stories about Esther Breger Senior Sales Planner hate crimes against Sikhs mistaken as Muslim, and I realized there is NewsReporter-Researcher Editor AlexNaomi Shephard Shavin Meredith Portnoy a huge ripple effect from Trump that isn’t being considered.” 646-779-8016 ([email protected]) AssociateInterns Online Editors REPUBLIC OF FEAR, P. 42 Integrated Marketing Manager MikaelaJoel Gillin, Lefrak, Sarah Adam Kollmorgen Peck, Bijan Stephen Diana Ryan Alex Shephard is a news editor at the new republic. Educated Assistant Editor at one of the few public high schools that does not assign To Kill a Esther Breger Mockingbird, he read the book for the first time last summer. It was the Reporter-Researchers Steven Cohen, mass-market edition. SCOUT’S HONOR, P. 11 Emma Foehringer Merchant, Gwyneth Kelly, Laura Reston , a Chicago-based photographer, heard a story on Brad Temkin Editorial Assistant NPR in 2009 about the city’s initiative to plant more roof gardens. Meaghan Murphy He set out to explore them for himself, photographing green roofs in Interns Publisher and Executive Chairman Clio Chang, Maggie Foucault about 20 cities around the world over six years. “I’m interested in Chris Hughes how the urban and natural landscapes are integrated with each other,” he said. “But nature always wins.” PARADISE FOUND, P. 46 The New Republic AdvisoryPublished Board by Lake Avenue Publishing William A. 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