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Issue 34, Winter 2025
Last Boys at the Beginning of History

I became part of a politically mixed social scene in D.C. and had discovered, with at least a little discomfort, that despite the twentieth-century liberal occupying the White House, the intellectual vitalism in my generation was increasingly to be found in post-liberal or conservative spaces—in other words, on the right.

Mana Afsari
 

The Soul Should Not Be Handled

This is the first column in a four-part series by B.D. McClay on speculative fiction.
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