Summer 2026 · Volume 44, issue 2

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Inheritance and Attention

How does a small magazine inherit a tradition without becoming its museum? This issue follows attention across public life, archives and criticism.

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Contents

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  1. 01

    Culture

    A civic culture needs places where disagreement can acquire memory, proportion and consequence.

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    Archive

    An archive becomes valuable when a reader can enter it by question, person and argument — not merely by filename.

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    Editorial

    The small magazine earns loyalty by making a sharper promise than the platforms surrounding it.

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