The Anti-Intellectual Intellectuals of the Conservative Movement The Anti-Intellectual Intellectuals of the Conservative Movement
Why is Mark Levin’s American Marxism so popular?
Dec 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
Remembering the Clarion Call of bell hooks Remembering the Clarion Call of bell hooks
My recollections of the late scholar, who revolutionized her fields.
Dec 21, 2021 / Patricia J. Williams
Alfred Döblin’s Surreal Foray Into Climate Fiction Alfred Döblin’s Surreal Foray Into Climate Fiction
The 20th-century German writer’s novel Mountains Oceans Giants is a stunning and strange look into what an environmental apocalypse might look like.
Dec 21, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Joe Bucciero
My Journey Into the Land of the Unmasked My Journey Into the Land of the Unmasked
I headed to Florida as a hardcore Covid-avoider, but after just three days, I was singing karaoke with strangers, throwing all caution to the wind.
Dec 16, 2021 / Elie Mystal
The Startling Postcolonial Poetics of “Coolitude” The Startling Postcolonial Poetics of “Coolitude”
Khal Thorabully’s epic poem “re-voices” the history of Indian indentured migration, and in the process imagines a new kind of transoceanic political solidarity.
Dec 16, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Aditya Bahl
Portraits in Minneapolis Portraits in Minneapolis
A street-art celebration of diversity.
The Finger Lakes Are Being Poisoned The Finger Lakes Are Being Poisoned
The birthplace of American feminism is being buried under a mountain of garbage.
Dec 14, 2021 / Susan Brind Morrow
Senator Hawley Touts Masculinity Senator Hawley Touts Masculinity
Josh Hawley says we need more men With pride in all that manly stuff. If Hawley means more men like him, Well, thanks, but we’ve got quite enough.
Dec 14, 2021 / Column / Calvin Trillin