Michael Shorris

Michael Shorris is a writer and documentary filmmaker in New York.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (right) is interviewed by Jordan Peterson at the annual conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in London, February 18, 2025.

What’s So Scary About the Frankfurt School? What’s So Scary About the Frankfurt School?

In The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, A.J.A. Woods looks at how the Frankfurt scholars became the latest bogeymen for the contemporary right.

Jul 21, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Michael Shorris

A police officer cordons the entrance to the criminal courts building in New York, where demonstrators protested the acquittal of six transit police officers in the death of graffiti artist Michael Stewart, 1985.

Michael Stewart’s Death Still Haunts New York Michael Stewart’s Death Still Haunts New York

In 1985, police were acquitted in the killing of a graffiti artist and painter, a grisly act that galvanized the city’s art underground. Why has he been forgotten?

Jul 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Michael Shorris

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