Fall 2023

The cover image by Gabrielle Egnater depicts a wearable golden calf. Inside the issue, Suzanne Schneider writes about the emerging National Conservative movement, whose founder Yoram Hazony sees Israel as a model for right-wing states around the globe. Mari Cohen explores a new effort to offer restorative justice to victims of traffic violence—and tries to come to terms with her feelings toward the person who hit her with a car and fled the scene two years ago. And in a deep-dive report, Alex Kane digs into the Biden administration’s refusal to rethink the US–Israel relationship despite the extremism of Israel’s government. A special folio about the francophone feminist theorist Hélène Cixous features a wide-ranging conversation between Cixous and Claire Schwartz; meditations by Jo Mrelli, aracelis girmay, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Jules Gill-Peterson; an original song by the band DAYS; and fiction by Cixous herself. We’re also republishing James Baldwin’s classic essay on the fraught re