What Candidates Talk About When They Talk About Inequality What Candidates Talk About When They Talk About Inequality
Americans are deeply worried about wealth and income gaps. But the issue evinces only confusion on the campaign trail.
Sep 10, 2015 / Column / Eric Alterman
Classics of Catholic Economics Classics of Catholic Economics
In this issue, Nathan Schneider writes about Pope Francis’s economics. Here, he recommends five books of Catholic thought that display strikingly similar concerns to those of secul…
Sep 10, 2015 / Nathan Schneider
What Do You Get When You Remix the Confederacy for 2015? What Do You Get When You Remix the Confederacy for 2015?
Hint: It’s not just biscuits and magnolias.
Sep 10, 2015 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Kim Davis Kim Davis
The Rowan County clerk, Kim Davis, Believes that Jesus came to save us, And her beliefs she would betray OK’ing marriage that is gay. The judge said, when he heard her tale, Just d…
Sep 10, 2015 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Who Loves You? Who Loves You?
America’s ongoing fascination with Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra.
Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
The Kissinger Effect The Kissinger Effect
Leftists often describe Henry Kissinger as a unique moral monster, but his intellectual framework pervades the entire national security state, from the neocons to Obama.
Sep 10, 2015 / Feature / Greg Grandin
Diagnosis Inc. Diagnosis Inc.
You are two oranges shy of sangria You chumpchange in a clackdish You the flensed soldier, egg-runny on the inside You frogging deadline after deadline You caught in a Swiss chokeh…
Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / James Byrne
The Unfathomable Sadness The Unfathomable Sadness
Miriam Toews writes about death and mental illness without sentimentality or sweeping platitudes.
Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Oyler
The Flow of Life The Flow of Life
Is Saul Bellow the central American novelist since Willa Cather and William Faulkner?
Sep 10, 2015 / Books & the Arts / David Mikics
Puzzle No. 3373 Puzzle No. 3373
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Dandies holding back largely beige instrument found in an operating room (7) 6 Psst… nice, crazy eyes (8) 1…
Sep 10, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto