The New Yorker

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

James Baldwin didn’t believe in reform; he believed in revolution. “Anything less than a total social reckoning—a complete psychological makeover of white America—was worthless,” Louis Menand writes.

Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 plea deal in Florida included the promise that the United States “will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.” Does that mean Ghislaine Maxwell can’t be prosecuted?