Big Brother: watching, listening and…; nukes on our mind
His candidacy is an opportunity for New Yorkers to reimagine their city in boldly progressive ways.
Francis Reynolds on a landmark blow to stop-and-frisk, John Thomason on long-overdue justice in North Carolina, and Rebecca Nathanson on NYU’s corporate style of higher education
Fifty years after King’s historic march, the struggle for racial justice faces unprecedented challenges.
As the old journalism dies, what does the Bezos era portend?
Fifty years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s most famous speech, like his own political legacy, is widely misunderstood.
On city walls across the country, muralists and street artists depict him as a statesman, visionary, hero and martyr.
How low-wage food service workers are serving up justice.
Two photographers focus on the difficulties of putting words to what one sees.
Wake Up and Live! reveals the connection between the radical individualism of 1930s self-help manuals and fascist politics.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte undertook a pure search for truth. He also distrusted international markets. Does that make him an ancestor to anti-globalization activists?
An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.


