Plus: Zohran Mamdani; Galileo
| Christian Marclay’s newest work arrives at a moment when digital data collection—once a source of awe—inspires something closer to dread. Zohran Mamdani, the thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist assemblymember, has been steadily gaining ground over Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral primary. Can he close the gap? Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence. The debate over Proust’s relation to his Jewish identity ultimately turns not just on his personal attachments but on how he represents Jewish characters in his novel. Free from the ArchivesThree hundred and ninety-two years ago today, the Catholic Church’s Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition found Galileo Galilei guilty of “vehement suspicion of heresy” for “having held and believed that the sun is the center of the universe and immoveable, and that the Earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move.” Publication of his work was banned and he was sentenced to house arrest for the remainder of his life. In the Review’s October 8, 1987, issue, Italo Calvino wrote about Galileo, Jesuit intrigue, heliocentrism, and “the entire milieu that surrounded the dispute over the ‘new science.’” “How did such a radical turn of the wheel take place? How did things pass from the ‘marvelous conjuncture’ of new intellectual developments during the Barberini papacy to the dark climate of the great ideological trials of the Inquisition?” Special Offer
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