Salvos

6 History Won’t Judge The verdicts that matter are rendered in the here and now Kirsten Weld 16 The Suburban Strategy A Democratic Party of the sprawl Zinzi Clemmons

24 100 Percent American J.D. Vance’s MAGA makeover Chris Lehmann

38 Conserving Liberalism A neglected twentieth-century concept anticipates today’s “woke capitalism” Kyle Edward Williams

56 Guru Shit

On Liberties journal and the project of liberal rehab Jonathon Sturgeon

88 Against Artsploitation Unionizing the New Museum Dana Kopel

100 On the Eve of Destruction

Breaking the double bind of the nuclear arms race Richard Rhodes

112 The Photographer’s Dilemma Peter van Agtmael in the maw of the American war machine Joshua Craze

122 Rebel is Right Reassessing the Cultural Revolution Chaohua Wang

Outbursts

34 Traumatic Monologues On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics Melanie Yazzie 48 The End of Excellence

Inside the empty thinking of America’s executive class Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

80 Bad Faith

Andrew Sullivan’s infinite repression Dale Peck

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