Longread
Just Wear Your Smile
Few who encounter Positive Psychology via self-help books and therapy know that it's gender politics valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.
Boston Review
Comment
Stop Weaponizing History
Right and left are united in a vulgar form of historicism.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Retrieval
The Dentist Who Defrauded Two Governments—and a Historian, Part I
What happens when forged documents enter the historical record?
Contingent
Biography
Josephine Baker Was the Star France Wanted—and the Spy It Needed
When the night-club sensation became a Resistance agent, the Nazis never realized what she was hiding in the spotlight.
The New Yorker
Retrieval
Hat Havoc in the Big Apple
The Hat Riots of 1922 show how arbitrary, elite rules can spur civil unrest.
Law & Liberty
Antecedent
How Puerto Rico Recovered Before
The island’s New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.
In These Times
Q&A
Ask the ‘Coupologists’: Just What Was Jan. 6 Anyway?
Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.
Politico Magazine