Books / Double Take

We’re living, some say, in a golden age of philanthropy—and also in an era of extreme inequality. This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces on modern philanthropy and the ways in which it shapes our world. Elizabeth Kolbert…

Fifty years ago this week, Kurt Vonnegut published the dystopian classic “Slaughterhouse-Five.” With everything that’s going on in the world, it’s easy to feel as though we’re living in a dystopia from which there’s no escape.…

It’s been nearly fifty years since the nineteen-seventies began—and yet the touchstones of that decade, from Watergate to the denim jumpsuit, seem more relevant than ever. This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces…

This weekend—after a horrific mass shooting in New Zealand was live-streamed on Facebook—we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about the ways in which social media is affecting our lives and our politics. In “Ghost in the…