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The Unfortunate Consequences of a Misguided Free Speech Principle We need to repair our politics, not our speech.

By Robert Charles Post

Didier Eribon on James Baldwin, Fathers, and the Crushing Weight of the Past The author and philosopher reflects on the social and psychological burdens that shaped his distant relationship with his father.

By Didier Eribon

‘Eliminate the nonessential’ and Other Advice for Artists Artist and teacher Kit White offers a toolkit of ideas and a set of guiding principles for creative thinking.

By Kit White

60 Years Ago, Congress Warned Us About the Surveillance State. What Happened? "We must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”

By Jennifer Holt

Radium Age

The MIT Press’s Radium Age is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935. In these forgotten classics, science fiction readers will discover the origins of enduring tropes like robots (berserk or benevolent), tyrannical supermen, dystopian wastelands, sinister telepaths, and eco-catastrophes.

Series editor: Joshua Glenn

The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories by Francis Stevens is the newest book in the series. Francis Stevens, the pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett, is celebrated as “the woman who invented dark fantasy.” Bennett’s work has anticipated everything from the work of Philip K. Dick to Superman comics to The Hunger Games, making it as relevant now as it ever was.

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