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In the Fall 2025 issue: Jackson Arn on the mindless expansion of art museums; David Greenberg on the nonsense of “neoliberalism”; Cass R. Sunstein on what AI cannot do, now or ever;  Julia Kieserman on privacy and the pill; James P. Rubin on the Democrats and the fight for American foreign policy; Ryan Ruby on literary canons here and elsewhere; Vanessa Garcia on love and first responders; Henry Oliver on Shakespeare’s mothers;   Michael Walzer on unlikely meetings with uncommonly interesting people; Paul Reitter on Marx’s adventures in mimesis; Paul North on the inner life of things made and traded; Anna Ballan on womanly ecstasy according to Charlotte Brontë; Robert Rubsam on Yasunari Kawabata’s art of distance; Didi Tal on “I Am an American Day”; Yahia Lababidi on the startling intensity of Blaise Pascal; Fateme Karimkhan in Tehran under fire; Celeste Marcus on the revolutionary synagogue; and Leon Wieseltier on the shopkeeper who gave him the gift of doubt. As well as poetry from John Berryman and Myles Zavelo.

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