Fate of the West

Stories from blog. Show all stories · All sources

• bblog2026-10-15✓ Read

  Why We’re Banning AI

  Iam proud to say that as part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the publishing industry. No text that is AI-generated may be published in our magazine. No AI-generated art may be used as a Current Affairs illustration. When you read Current Affairs, you are going to be reading the thoughts of a human, and seeing the results of human artistry.

  
• bblog2026-10-14✓ Read

  The Opioid Crisis Looms Over Michigan’s Senate Race

  One of the most important things I’ve learned in my experience with opioid addiction, and later recovery, is the virtue of honesty. Most people in recovery will tell you it’s hard to get clean without a “searching and fearless moral inventory” of your past transgressions. It’s a way of cataloging the times you may have been wrong, so you can hopefully make it up to yourself and everyone else when you’re ready. This process is necessary for growth and change.

  b
• bblog2026-10-13✓ Read

  Johnny Cash, Prison Abolitionist

  There’s a popular T-shirt, which you can find in souvenir stores, gas stations, and Walmarts across the United States. It’s typically black, and it has a white screen-printed photo of Johnny Cash on it. He’s grasping his acoustic guitar, and his face is screwed up in a defiant snarl as he flips a middle finger at the camera. Underneath, the shirt says simply CASH, in all caps. Thousands of people own this shirt. They wear it to the grocery store, and to their kids’ baseball games, and to vote in November.

  b
• bblog2026-10-12✓ Read

  The Political Afterlives of Ferdinand the Bull

  One of the most iconic pacifists in American literature celebrates his 90th birthday this year. The bovine hero of the children’s picture book The Story of Ferdinand rose to fame in 1936, when he refused to partake in a bullfight.

  b

Know a source we’re missing? Tell us about it