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Salmagundi 226-227, Spring - Summer 2025

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In this issue:
Will the Real Francis Picabia Please Stand Up?

Barbara Purcell
The Tragedy of Liberal Self-Doubt

Matt Johnson
46,000 is the New 6,000,000

David Stromberg
The Field

Ben Corvo
Crazy

Philip Schultz
How I Learned

Richard Tillinghast
After the Revolution:

Campbell Mcgrath
Vanishing Acts

Anne Kenner
Bunk

Robert Cohen
Meditation on the Occasion of the Looting of the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem

Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi
Philip Rieff’s Fellow Teachers:

Alan Woolfolk
The Conservatory

Jay Neugeboren
A Smiling Public Man

Jeffrey Meyers
To Be “Unalive”—or Not to Be

Elizabeth Benedict
The Baron Bump*

Linda Hall
Influence & Anxiety

Adam Phillips
Building New Rafts:

Martin Jay
Post-Election

William Deresiewicz
Lost in Totality:

Garret Keizer
From Philosophy to Power:

Paul Leslie