The Pundits Are Always Right The Pundits Are Always Right
There’s no place for ambition in American politics.
May 18, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
The Annie Dillard Show The Annie Dillard Show
In felicitous language, she enables us to see the world afresh. But there is always a distance, a sense of performance.
May 18, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
The Soul of the Tea Party The Soul of the Tea Party
The Koch brothers may have paid for some buses, but Fox News and talk radio filled them with bodies.
May 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David Bromwich
A Blues for Albert Murray A Blues for Albert Murray
His name was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so.
May 16, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Chatterton Williams
The Anthropocene Truism The Anthropocene Truism
Humans and the environment have never been separable. But what does the idea mean for politics?
May 12, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Katrina Forrester
Let’s Not Forget Socialism in the Resurrection of Socialist Art Let’s Not Forget Socialism in the Resurrection of Socialist Art
William Gropper’s art offers a lasting lesson in how useful pencils and paintbrushes can be in the fight against the exploitation of the many for the profit of the few.
May 12, 2016 / Richard Kreitner
The Roots of Today’s Racism and Police Violence, in an ‘Inconceivably Brutal’ Riot 150 Years Ago The Roots of Today’s Racism and Police Violence, in an ‘Inconceivably Brutal’ Riot 150 Years Ago
“The police headed the butchery” in Memphis in May of 1866, The Nation reported at the time, “and occupied themselves in shooting down every colored person, of whatever sex, of who...
May 11, 2016 / Richard Kreitner
Don DeLillo’s American Dream Don DeLillo’s American Dream
His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.
May 11, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jon Baskin
Gentrification and Occupation at the Brooklyn Museum Gentrification and Occupation at the Brooklyn Museum
“This is our museum. We paid for it. It’s an important part of our community.”
May 11, 2016 / Michelle Chen
These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall
A collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo captures the austere brutality of the borderlands.
May 11, 2016 / Photo Essay / John Washington