Hari Kunzru

Surviving the Manosphere

Adolescence illustrates how, in the hypercapitalist competition of toxic masculinity online, teenagers have the most to lose.

Scratching the Surface

“What we’ve come to call ‘election denial’ is, of course, a conspiracy theory, and support for that is an article of faith for many Trumpists who want to work in the administration, so to a greater or lesser extent, they’re all under the spell of conspiratorial thinking.”

Doing Their Own Research

An electoral coalition of the conspiracy cultures of both the Christian right and the countercultural left helped bring Donald Trump back to power, and now pseudoscience and paranoia are in the ascendant.

Mirror Issues: How the President Reflects the State of the Nation

Socialists on the Knife-Edge

From early utopian communities to the leftist resurgence today, the history of American socialism is deeper than its meager successes.

On a Quest to Know Everything

“We’re living through a moment when the inhuman scale and complexity of the world has been made visible to us, and we are reacting in human ways. Paranoia is understandable, even logical.”

As American as Family Separation

Though the cruelties of the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy were unique, they were part of a long American tradition of taking children from their parents.

Rival Realities

The Wages of Whiteness

Whiteness is a concept that can be made to serve many interests and positions, not all of them compatible.

Democracy’s Red Line

On Masha Gessen’s ‘Surviving Autocracy’

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

For the Lulz

4chan, Gamergate, and how thwarted, angry young men have reshaped political discourse

Fool Britannia

From the Brexit referendum onward, Britain’s governing class has embarrassed itself.