The Long Shadow of Cultural Anthropology The Long Shadow of Cultural Anthropology
Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and their circle sought to show the fallacy of biological and physical difference, but they also created new forms of categorization that reinforced thei...
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
The Worlds of Edward Said The Worlds of Edward Said
An exile who made the world his home, Said infused his literary style with a cosmopolitan ease and his political commitments with a cosmopolitan ethics.
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rashid Khalidi
The Pandemic in Our Minds The Pandemic in Our Minds
A classic horror movie reveals how authoritarianism and scapegoating flourish during a plague.
May 1, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Watching Hong Kong Cop Movies After 10 Months of Tear Gas Watching Hong Kong Cop Movies After 10 Months of Tear Gas
The genre that propelled Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat to stardom has been tainted by real-life police brutality during protests.
Apr 16, 2020 / Jaime Chu
The Tangled History of Illness and Idiocy The Tangled History of Illness and Idiocy
The pandemic is stress-testing two concepts Americans have historically gotten wrong.
Apr 13, 2020 / Jessi Jezewska Stevens
The Center Is a Decaying Piece of Real Estate The Center Is a Decaying Piece of Real Estate
And Bernie Sanders is the only candidate not clinging to it.
Feb 10, 2020 / Column / Shuja Haider
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Appalachian True-Crime Chronicle Upends the Genre Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Appalachian True-Crime Chronicle Upends the Genre
In a conversation with fellow true-crime writer Rachel Monroe, Eisenberg discusses the pitfalls and potential of the evolving genre.
Jan 29, 2020 / Editorial / Rachel Monroe
The Tiki Bar Resurgence of the Trump Era The Tiki Bar Resurgence of the Trump Era
It’s tacky and willfully inauthentic. Of course it’s popular again.
Jan 6, 2020 / Jackson Arn
Toni Morrison’s Revolution in American Literature Toni Morrison’s Revolution in American Literature
As with Pilate, the fierce outsider and moral conscience of Song of Solomon, Morrison never asked for the proverbial seat at the table. Instead, she pulled the entire table over to...
Dec 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy
‘The Irishman’ Tells the Story of the Corruption of Empire ‘The Irishman’ Tells the Story of the Corruption of Empire
Scorsese’s gangster epic highlights the personal and political cost of counterrevolutionary violence.
Dec 6, 2019 / Jeet Heer