October 2026

‘Of This World’—Will and Attention

A conversation with author and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn about her new memoir, sobriety, a failed attempt to convert, and Simone Weil's counsel to cure our faults 'by attention and not by will.'
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A Native Weed

Joseph Kelly argues that the roots of fascism can be found not in Europe but in the U.S. But he struggles to explain what, precisely, fascism is.

The Women Behind Civil Rights

What if Martin Luther King, Jr. were just a bit player in the struggle for racial equality? Marcia Chatelain tells us how history could look very different.