Back Talk: Peter Singer Back Talk: Peter Singer
A conversation with the author of The Life You Can Save about charitable giving and the utility monster argument.
Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
When the Whip Comes Down: On Mary Gaitskill When the Whip Comes Down: On Mary Gaitskill
With Don't Cry, a disabling self-consciousness has crept into Mary Gaitskill's fiction.
Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Death of Warren Harding Death of Warren Harding
A kindly, genial man who should never have given up his career as a journalist.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors
Army-McCarthy Hearings: Gentelmen’s Agreement Army-McCarthy Hearings: Gentelmen’s Agreement
With his farcical accusations against the Secretary of the Army, Tailgunner Joe meets his Waterloo.
Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / Carey McWilliams
Edison’s Phonograph Edison’s Phonograph
The quiet breakfast could end up being a thing of the past if the rumors about Edison inventing a phonograph are true.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Nation
Custer: One of the Indian Outbreaks Custer: One of the Indian Outbreaks
Little Bighorn could end up being as disastrous for the Indians as it was for General Custer.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors
Synder-Gray: Fights and Flights in the Newspapers Synder-Gray: Fights and Flights in the Newspapers
Ruth Elder's oversea hop is acclaimed by the daily press as a triumph, although she fell more than six hundred miles short of her destination, and seems from the headlines to h...
Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / Silas Bent
The Panic of 1873 The Panic of 1873
On Wall Street, the Panic of 1873 was more like brute terror.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors
The Newspaper Biz: ‘More Poison, Please’? The Newspaper Biz: ‘More Poison, Please’?
We have no more hope today of saving the newspaper business than we do the telegraph business. But we can save the news.
Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Rockabilly Blues Rockabilly Blues
Rock. Rock. Rockabilly, rock. Really Billy, really, really rock. Shake your silly hillbilly flock. Sing the Pledge of Allegiance. Sing all the dire anthems of the coming apocalypse. Sing the burning bush. Sing the Wall St. blues & bow down before the bedonkadonk of Britney or the Brits at old Bunker Hill. It's all good... It's all Davy Crockett.
Apr 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Adrian C. Louis