Culture

Protest Tesla

Protest Tesla Protest Tesla

Street action at Tesla, Route 22, Springfield, NJ, March 1, 2025.

Mar 18, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Guancione

Sherrod Brown: Three decades of talking about the dignity of work wasn’t enough to save him.

How the American Left Became Conservative How the American Left Became Conservative

Against the radical, if reactionary, experiment run from the White House, everyone from Democratic leaders in Congress to MSNBC hosts have turned to the defense of institutions.

Mar 18, 2025 / Michael Kazin

Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy

Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy

Our last best hope for sharing, shaping, and wrangling over independent ideas may turn out to be America’s scrappy and disparate arts spaces—if they can hang on financially.

Mar 18, 2025 / Alisa Solomon

A scene from “Severance.”

The Workplace Nightmares of “Severance” The Workplace Nightmares of “Severance”

The appeal of the Apple TV+ series is how it dramatizes our alienation from labor.

Mar 18, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte

Scene at the signing of the Constitution of the United States.

The End of Resistance History The End of Resistance History

On this episode of American Prestige, Charlotte Rosen on the short life of a liberal historiography that emerged during the first Trump administration.

Mar 18, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

Trump Attacks Free Speech on Campus

Trump Attacks Free Speech on Campus Trump Attacks Free Speech on Campus

Jailing protesters won't stop the protests.

Mar 17, 2025 / OppArt / Judy Polstra

A restaurant on Atlanta’s BeltLine trail.

How Atlanta Became a Walkable City How Atlanta Became a Walkable City

The Beltline and Georgia's experiment in pedestrian spaces.

Mar 17, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Karrie Jacobs

Chuck Screwme

Chuck Screwme Chuck Screwme

The Marvelous Mr. Measles.

Mar 14, 2025 / Steve Brodner

A view of the Butano Redwood Canyon in Pescadero, California, 2011.

Why “The Living Mountain” Endures Why “The Living Mountain” Endures

Nan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman.

Mar 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Odell

Making Enemies With the World

Making Enemies With the World Making Enemies With the World

Trump’s anti-immigrant position is devastating lives.

Mar 12, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

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