Better Living Through Torture Better Living Through Torture
I should have been a member of the torture creative class, because now I would be having a good life.
Apr 29, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
What Do (Battered) Women Want? What Do (Battered) Women Want?
We take it for granted that when men hit, it's up to women to run away. Except, some of them stay.
Apr 15, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Mad About Michelle Mad About Michelle
Yesterday's fist-bumping radical is today's mom in chief.
Apr 2, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Love Me, I’m a Conservative Love Me, I’m a Conservative
Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat joins the New York Times's op-ed lineup. Depressing.
Mar 18, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Lifestyles of the Rich and Generous? Lifestyles of the Rich and Generous?
Will the skewed values of the boom years give way to a spirit of generosity toward the poor?
Mar 5, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Freedom of Speech, Round 5,425 Freedom of Speech, Round 5,425
Two decades after the Ayatollah Khomeini called for a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, not much has changed on either side of the cultural divide.
Feb 18, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Kindness of Strangers The Kindness of Strangers
The global economic crisis is showing how wishful was the notion that philanthropy could save the world.
Feb 4, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Stimulating Reading Stimulating Reading
The economy of reading is rapidly collapsing. If we can bail out banks, why not the book industry?
Jan 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
Caroline and Me Caroline and Me
What Caroline Kennedy lacks as an appointee to the Senate, Tom Geoghegan possesses as a Congressional candidate.
Jan 8, 2009 / Column / Katha Pollitt
‘Tis the Season to Be Generous ‘Tis the Season to Be Generous
Ten great groups that help people who are worse off than you are.
Dec 17, 2008 / Column / Katha Pollitt