Why Did “Furiosa” Flop? Why Did “Furiosa” Flop?
A web of interconnected reasons might explain why George Miller’s long-awaited new entry to his Mad Max series failed in the box office.
Jul 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
How Comedy Central Fell Into Paramount’s Corporate Memory Hole How Comedy Central Fell Into Paramount’s Corporate Memory Hole
The entertainment behemoth deleted 25 years of the groundbreaking network's content prior to its new merger with Skydance—and things are likely to get much worse.
Jul 9, 2024 / Ben Schwartz
The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai
The Netanyahu administration seems to have learned from neighboring petrostates that spectacle can distract from ethnic cleansing.
Jul 9, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
The Rise and Fall of the American Constitutional Model The Rise and Fall of the American Constitutional Model
On this episode of American Prestige, Aziz Rana on how Americans came to revere the Constitution.
Jul 9, 2024 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison
In Poetry’s Church In Poetry’s Church
More than a half century of the Poetry Project
Jul 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Sasha Frere-Jones
The American Far Right and Conservatism in the Last Century The American Far Right and Conservatism in the Last Century
On this episode of American Prestige, Danny Bessner debates Yale historian David Austin Walsh about the conservative movement in the US.
Jul 5, 2024 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison
Passing the Torch Passing the Torch
BIPOC women lead us to the future.
Jul 4, 2024 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the date on the calendar.
Jul 4, 2024 / Dave Zirin
LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography
A new career survey at the MoMA is a perfect illustration of the photographer's mission: to reframe how viewers see the working-class and low-income people whom she counts as kin....
Jul 3, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
The Political Divorce Rocking the Philippines The Political Divorce Rocking the Philippines
The feud between the Dutertes and the Marcoses could have dire consequences for the cold war between China and the United States.
Jul 3, 2024 / Feature / Walden Bello