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Another Week in the White House (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
photo of Hitler and Albert Speer
Hitler's Classical Architect (Architecture, Books & Arts)

Why is Léon Krier defending anew the work of the Third Reich’s master builder?

Michael Sorkin
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Autobiography and Memoir, Dance, Shelf Life)

Ralph Lemon’s Come Home Charley Patton

Marina Harss
photo of Janet Malcolm
Attacks From Within: On Janet Malcolm (Books & Arts, Journalists and Journalism, Fine Art, Literature)

The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.

Mark Oppenheimer
klawans flappers and philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers (Books & Arts, Film)

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight

Stuart Klawans
Photo of Napoleon Chagnon
Fight Clubs: On Napoleon Chagnon (Books & Arts, Science)

One anthropologist’s place in his field’s ongoing battle over questions of power, means and ends.

Peter C. Baker
Renata Adler, April 1975, Patmos, Greece, photograph by Richard Avedon
Adler's Way (Books & Arts, Fiction)

The slowly panic-making power of Renata Adler’s novels Speedboat and Pitch Dark.

Alexandra Schwartz
At Brú na Bóinne (Books & Arts, Poems)
Elizabeth Arnold
Photo of Rabindranath Tagore, circa 1917
Empire States: On Pankaj Mishra (Books & Arts, History)

Why a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.

Thomas Meaney
Ways of Rebelling (Books & Arts, Poems)
Nathalie Handal

Blogs

Chris Hayes Gets Called 'Media Elite' by Stephen Colbert
Nation in the News

Stephen Colbert took Hayes to task on his show, holding up Hayes's book Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.

August 6, 2012
Gore Vidal and the Unfinished American Revolution
John Nichols

A literary lion who ran for Congress and the Senate, Vidal was a displaced American founder in the tradition of Shays’ Rebellion. 

August 1, 2012
How About Also Taking the Guns From the Cops?
Cord Jefferson

The hit BBC show Luther, not to mention real London police, are important reminders that you don't need a gun to be a good cop.

 

July 31, 2012
'Secundus Defecated Here': What Ancient Graffiti Means Today
Cord Jefferson

If you’re under the false impression that the world is falling into utter moral disrepair, turn your eyes toward Pompeii.

July 26, 2012
Lobbyists Bribed Congress With a Free Screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Lee Fang

Are lobbyists using the new Batman movie as a form of bribery? Senator Leahy’s second cameo, and a special preview screening for staff, is a problem.

July 23, 2012
Alexander Cockburn and the Radical Power of the Word
John Nichols

Alex, who has died at the age of 71, believed to the end in the necessity of information and insight as essential elements of an activism that would begin the world over again.

July 21, 2012
George McGovern at 90: Still a Patriot With a Bleeding Heart
John Nichols

McGovern has always practiced a politics that runs deeper; a politics rooted in his love of America’s history, its literature and its possibility.

July 19, 2012
Rockers Renew Radicalism of Woody's 'This Land is Your Land'
John Nichols

Tom Morello marks Guthrie’s 100th by restoring the left-wing verses of his most famous song.

July 13, 2012
Top Ten Woody Guthrie Songs
Peter Rothberg

A centennial tribute to the man whose influence has been as profoundly felt as that of any musician in US, and perhaps world, history.

July 13, 2012
10 Comedians Who Aren't Defending Rape Jokes
Katie Halper

Funnily enough, not all comedians are defending Daniel Tosh’s rape jokes.

July 12, 2012
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