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Against preventive detention: Recognition, coercion, and mental health policy

Bangladesh, April 26 -- In recent years, jurisdictions such as New York City have expanded policies permitting the involuntary psychiatric evaluation—and in some cases detention—of individ... Read More


The moral case for harm reduction

Bangladesh, April 15 -- The argument over how society should respond to addiction is usually framed in medical or political terms, but beneath it lies a moral dispute: what kind of thing is addiction,... Read More


The automation of longing: How platforms reengineered desire

Bangladesh, April 6 -- We are not living through a sexual renaissance. By the most basic empirical measures, we are having less sex than previous generations. What looks like liberation is something c... Read More


Unsettling the visible: Caravaggio at the Morgan library

Bangladesh, March 26 -- The current exhibition of Boy with a Basket of Fruit (ca. 1595) at The Morgan Library & Museum—on view through April 19, 2026—offers a rare opportunity to see what ... Read More


After creation: Frankenstein and the burden of what we make

Bangladesh, March 11 -- We live in a world littered with things we have made and no longer know how to live with. Our technologies scale beyond our capacity to govern them; our systems generate conseq... Read More


One Battle After Another and the seduction of endless struggle

Bangladesh, Feb. 20 -- We live in an age that prides itself on vigilance. We are told—often correctly—that history never ends, that reaction never sleeps, that injustice returns in new gui... Read More


Lincoln and the violence of justice: Emancipation and emergency power

Bangladesh, Feb. 13 -- Every February, on Abraham Lincolns birthday, Americans rehearse a familiar liturgy. Lincoln is praised as the Great Emancipator, the savior of the Union, the embodiment of mora... Read More