November/December 2019
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Volume 1, Number 1 • September 1922
REVIEWS & RESPONSES
Obama’s Idealists 162
American Power in Theory and Practice
Peter Beinart
How a Caliphate Ends 170
On the Frontline o the Fight Against ISIS
Anne Barnard
What Is White America? 177
The Identity Politics o the Majority
Nell Irvin Painter
The Virtue of Monopoly 184
Why the Stock Market Stopped Working
Felix Salmon
The New Masters of the Universe 191
Big Tech and the Business o Surveillance
Paul Starr
Recent Books 198