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Our current issue takes on this volatile and dangerous moment with a wide variety of pieces bearing on aspects of this unprecedented time in our endangered democracy: Paul Leslie writes on J.D. Vance and the American right’s misuse of philosophy to bolster their agenda; William Deresiewicz questions the Democrats’ election postmortems and investigates what he calls an ‘exhausted’ institutionalized Liberalism while Matt Johnson considers Liberal self-doubt; Martin Jay writes about Trump’s inheritance of the legacy of the left.

Something That Would Have Been Somebody:

Abortion, Reproductive Justice, and Political Imagination

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

After George Steiner:

A Personal Recollection

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

George at Chess

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Before The Earth Cooled:

The Pre-Jazz Life and Music of Buddy Bolden

Poetry, Prose, and Longing:

The Memoirs of Honor Moore*

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Guest Column: Jam Songs

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Column: Art & Culture

Sontag & Rieff

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

The Enigma of Constancy: The Resilience of Trump’s Base

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

After the Beheading

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Trump: A Summing Up. And After?

An Exchange

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Plague in the Time of Coronavirus:

The Representation of the Black Death in the Arts

Salmagundi No. 208-209, Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Notes on White Racial Identity

Salmagundi No. 172/173 (Fall 2011-Winter 2012)

George Steiner (1929-2020)

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Column: Letter From London

The 2019 General Election

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

Column: Force Fields

On The Spectrum: Conspiracy Theories and Explanations

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020

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Romare Bearden

Bearden’s Studio on Canal Street, New York City (1976)

(Photo by Blaine Waller)

Conjure Women: Romare Bearden and the Stories Great Grandmother Told

Salmagundi No. 206-207, Spring-Summer 2020