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Liberals Vs. Socialists Club Fed Toni Morrison's Origin Story LIBERALS VS. SOCIALISTS CLUB FED TONI MORRISON’S ORIGIN STORY NOVEMBER 2017 RESIST/PERSISTRESIST/PERSIST “Will surprise readers in "This flowing account of women, “A clear overview of America’s "A broad-ranging, showing how extensive and whose financial contributions, prejudices and limitations. evenhanded view of a tradition active pro-Nazi groups were in celebrity, style, and innovative A highly readable study whose honed into an art form in Southern California. strategies revitalized a cause historical accounts of sexism America: the use of dissent as 'a A fine, very-well- and changed history, will be and xenophobia bear repeated critique of governance'. Young documented study." welcomed by all readers." discussion." has a knack for finding obscure but thoroughly revealing —Publishers Weekly —Library Journal —Foreword Reviews moments of history to illustrate his points.” —Kirkus Reviews DRAWING ON THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION IN THE TAMIMENT LIBRARY’S POSTER AND BROADSIDE COLLECTION AT NYU, MAKE ART NOT WAR IS AN EXTRAORDINARILY VISCERAL COLLECTION OF POSTERS THAT REPRESENT THE PROGRESSIVE PROTEST MOVEMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: LABOR, CIVIL RIGHTS, THE VIETNAM WAR, LGBT RIGHTS, FEMINISM, AND OTHER MINORITY ISSUES. @nyupress/nyupress.org a contents NOVEMBER 2017 UP FRONT 6 The NRA’s New Scare Tactics 36 How the gun lobby is remaking itself as an arm of the alt-right. BY LAURA RESTON 8 Battle of the Plutocrats The Democratic Party’s odd choice for governor of Illinois. BY JUSTIN MILLER 9 The Trump Tweetometer Why Category 5 hurricanes may be the only thing that can save America. 10 Mother of All Bombers Trump is unleashing U.S. military might at a record pace. BY JENNIFER WILSON 12 Repeal and Replace How GOP legislators are trashing citizen-approved laws. BY CLIO CHANG COLUMN 14 It’s the Culture, Stupid Why Democrats need to embrace identity politics. BY LEE DRUTMAN The Return of Fascism REVIEW Across Europe, far-right nationalists are attacking 44 Long Divisions Toni Morrison’s vision of exclusion and migrants, raiding mosques, and winning elections. belonging. BY NELL IRVIN PAINTER TEXT BY SEYLA BENHABIB | PHOTOGRAPHS BY ESPEN RASMUSSEN 50 Art Brute The Square delivers a savage satire on the art world. BY CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN 52 Sunken Pleasures Jennifer Egan disconnects from modern life’s fractured nature. BY MICHELLE DEAN 16 26 32 55 Club Fed Why the government goes easy on States of Sibling Rivalry Made in corporate crime. BY DAVID DAYEN Liberals and socialists Denial America 58 Mom, Interrupted Trump insists that climate share a common For years, we’ve looked Pamela Adlon’s Better Things reinvents ideological inheritance. change isn’t real. From to China for cheap labor. the family sitcom. BY RACHEL SYME crop failures to killer Can they find a way to Now Chinese couples are 60 Cold War World storms, his Southern work together to defeat coming to the U.S. for a A new history redefines the conflict’s supporters are paying the Trumpism and forge new form of outsourcing: true extent—and costs. BY PATRICK IBER price. A journey to a deep- a more representative hiring American women red county on the front democracy? to produce babies. 68 Backstory lines of global warming. BY JEET HEER BY MOIRA WEIGEL PHOTOGRAPH BY PATRICK BROWN BY MATTHEW SHAER POETRY 57 American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin BY TERRANCE HAYES ESPEN RASMUSSEN/VERDENS GANG/PANOS PICTURES GANG/PANOS RASMUSSEN/VERDENS ESPEN COVER ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM MAIDA NOVEMBER 2017 | 1 contributors Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer professor of political science and Editor in Chief Win McCormack philosophy at Yale University, where she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century European social and political thought. She has written Editor and edited more than 15 books on subjects ranging from universal human Eric Bates rights to migration, Islam, and cosmopolitanism. Her next book, Playing Chess With History. Exile, Statelessness, Migration From Hannah Arendt to Literary Editor Digital Director Laura Marsh Mindy Kay Bricker Isaiah Berlin, will be published next year. 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