Bonfire of the Humanities Bonfire of the Humanities
Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Mistakes Get Made Mistakes Get Made
Democracy floats on currents of change. Is it ever capable of managing them?
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears
Marriage Marriage
At the lowest stratum of Troy, beneath the Skaean Gates and broken dishes and bronze flakes as brittle as fallen leaves, Schliemann found a pair of toads in hibernation since the time of Hector and Andromache. To think of what survives!
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Devin Johnston
Koi Koi
Koi converse in slow circles of what we have not seen Mercy and the dark bottom of the pond The recirculating pump we call karma is only a sound and mysterious as well being A comforting surrounding to lives of endless destinations
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Allan Peterson
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Antal Szerb and the world’s stubborn magic.
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
Puzzle No. 3352 Puzzle No. 3352
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Jan 20, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Snapshot: The Left Parties Snapshot: The Left Parties
Pablo Iglesias (center), the secretary general of Spain’s progressive Podemos party, sits with Alexis Tsipras (right), the leader of Greece’s left-wing Syriza party. Syriza is expected to win in Greece’s parliamentary elections, and Podemos is polling neck-and-neck with Spain’s conservative People’s Party.
Jan 20, 2015 / Juan Medina
Gaza’s Labor Unrest Is Reaching a Boiling Point Gaza’s Labor Unrest Is Reaching a Boiling Point
As the unity government wrangles over management of the devastated Gaza Strip, government workers are striking for their overdue wages.
Jan 20, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Joni Ernst Will Provide a Koch Brothers Rebuttal to the State of the Union Joni Ernst Will Provide a Koch Brothers Rebuttal to the State of the Union
The new senator from Iowa credits the billionaires and their allies: they “really started my trajectory.”
Jan 20, 2015 / John Nichols
Charlie Hebd’overload Charlie Hebd’overload
The week when everyone forgot the definition of irony.
Jan 20, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow