Richard Kreitner is a contributing writer and the author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union. His writings are at www.richardkreitner.com.
Artists have become the shock troops of gentrification, even at the Chelsea Hotel.
The first modern war created the modern Nation.
A dispatch from the House of Representatives, June 6, 1944.
The hateful commentary about the soldier’s return is motivated by fear of what his so-called desertion reveals.
There is no avoiding the inherently alienating consequences of trying to earn a living through the production of words.
‘Wide and luminous’ or ‘grid-locked and addled on speed’?
Meditations on writers’ conferences, Schlesinger Jr. on America, an Auden poem.
FDR, Fiorello La Guardia and rebuilding New York City during the New Deal.