The Week’s Best Longreads
Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant? Wells Tower, GQ What kind of person looks on the world’s largest land animal—a beast that mourns its dead, lives to retirement age, and can distinguish the voices of its enemies—and instead of saying “Wow!” says “Where’s my gun?”
At The ‘End of HIstory’ Still Stands Democracy Francis Fukuyama, The Wall Street Journal A political theorist looks back at his epochal 1989 essay about the triumph of democracy.
READ MORE When Furry Lewis Sang the Blues
How Jurgen Klinsmann Plans to Make American Soccer Better (And Less American) Sam Borden, The New York Times Magazine The former German star hopes to keep expectations low for the coming World Cup. For now, Klinsmann will take the long view when it comes to soccer success for the United States.
When French Irrationality Was Deadly David A. Bell, The New Republic A new history of the French writers who sold their souls to fascism.
READ MORE The Invasion That Saved Europe
Bad Science Llewllyn Hinkes-Jones, Jacobin Free-market academic research policies have unleashed medical quackery and scientific fraud, forcing consumers to pay premiums for discoveries we’ve already funded as taxpayers.
America’s Last Prisoner of War Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone In a 2012, the late Michael Hastings wrote the definitive account of American POW Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion into the hands of the Taliban.
READ MORE Somewhere After Normandy, Summer 1944
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