This essay appears in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. In August 1936, after a failed coup against the Second Spanish Republic, Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces seized the city of ...

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This essay is featured in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. Over the last year and a half, American universities have rapidly destroyed the right to protest on campus. At the request of ...