Exit Stage Left: The FBI and Student Radicals Exit Stage Left: The FBI and Student Radicals
How in 1960s Berkeley the state waged a two-front war to stamp out opponents, real and imagined, to its rule.
Oct 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Steve Wasserman
Makeshift and Marginal: On ‘The Master’ Makeshift and Marginal: On ‘The Master’
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, a drifter meets a rude awakening.
Oct 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Shelf Life Shelf Life
A.M. Homes’s May We Be Forgiven; Sherman Alexie’s Blasphemy.
Oct 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
The Crazy: Writing the Iraq War The Crazy: Writing the Iraq War
In memoirs and novels, Iraq vets reflect on war’s dehumanizing consequences.
Oct 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Eli Jelly-Schapiro
‘Occupy Unmasked’—Unmasked ‘Occupy Unmasked’—Unmasked
The documentary, starring the late Andrew Breitbart, is a deranged hodge-podge of bizarre memes, wild dot-connecting and unadulterated fury.
Oct 9, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tracey
Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: Politics in 1960 Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: Politics in 1960
During his Congressional run in 1960, the late writer and Nation contributor fired back at a less-than-friendly newspaper publisher.
Oct 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Ralph Nader, ‘Lone Ranger,’ Rides Again Ralph Nader, ‘Lone Ranger,’ Rides Again
Nader’s The Seventeen Solutions is a subversive primer that should be read in every high school civics class.
Oct 4, 2012 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Remembering Eric Hobsbawm Remembering Eric Hobsbawm
Hobsbawm’s life and writings will long serve as an inspiration to those who believe that a knowledge of history is essential to working for a better world.
Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel
A philosopher’s broadside against Darwinism and materialism is mostly an instrument of mischief.
Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg
Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self
How the American right’s obsession with male status legitimated the transition to a neoliberal ethos.
Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg