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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
By Mark Oppenheimer
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Meets His Spirit Animal
By Molly WorthenBooks
The Illiberalism of Marilynne Robinson
By Blake SmithReview
We Are All Imperialists Now
By Paul BermanEssay
Ella Baker, Pragmatism, and Black Democratic Perfectionism
By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.Opinion
Hey Siri, How Are You?
By Sara Tillinger WolkenfeldNews
The Rent’s Too Goddamned High
By Valerie StahlThe Spirit Lives On
By Sam KahnThe Mask as Symbol and Weapon
By Jay MichaelsonThe Culture War That’s Ended
By Maggie PhillipsLove Will Save More Lives Than Law
By Marvin OlaskyThe United States Should Abolish the Death Penalty, as Pope Francis Implores
By Joseph A. FiorenzaHow Should We Teach the Bible in Public Schools?
By Mark A. ChanceyBen Horowitz Is Boring
By Daniel Oppenheimer
The year was 1995. The venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, who recently made news by endorsing Donald Trump for president, was in his late twenties, working as a computer engineer for a software company in Silicon Valley. He was good at his job, but not obviously headed for great things. Marc Andreessen, on the other hand, was a legend in the making. He was only twenty-two, but had already co-founded Netscape Communications, the world’s first great web browser company. Andreessen had co-written the code for the first iteration of the browser, Mosaic, when still an undergraduate computer science major at the…