Books and Ideas

What Is Actually Happening?

What Is Actually Happening? What Is Actually Happening?

Possible explanations for the current moment include: This is political satire, this is hell, or this is America.

Jul 10, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Elizabeth Rush, Writer and Journalist

Is It Time to Retreat From the Sea? A Q&A With Elizabeth Rush Is It Time to Retreat From the Sea? A Q&A With Elizabeth Rush

The author discusses what we can do as rising waters reshape the American coastline.

Jul 9, 2018 / Q&A / Sophie Kasakove

The Trials of Jimmy Carter

The Trials of Jimmy Carter The Trials of Jimmy Carter

 The president without a party.

Jul 5, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin

Katharine Gates’s Anthropology of Kink

Katharine Gates’s Anthropology of Kink Katharine Gates’s Anthropology of Kink

The republication of Deviant Desires provides an opportunity to consider notions of sexuality that are often ignored or minimized elsewhere.

Jul 3, 2018 / Cassidy Dawn Graves

The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire

The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire

The radical vision of the Martinique poet and politician.

Jul 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs

Roger Scruton’s Conservative Moment

Roger Scruton’s Conservative Moment Roger Scruton’s Conservative Moment

Scruton’s new book is framed as an “invitation to the great tradition” of the right—but what it offers is anachronistic and hopelessly obscure.

Jul 2, 2018 / Joseph Hogan

Woman protests Thomas Homan

Against Civility Against Civility

You can’t fight injustice with decorum.

Jun 27, 2018 / Sarah Leonard

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Well-Oiled Trump Machine Gets to Work on Family Separation Well-Oiled Trump Machine Gets to Work on Family Separation

It’s all about that MAGA! 

Jun 26, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

ignore this…

Jun 21, 2018 / Jen Sorensen

Trump and Obama meet

Obama Envy Obama Envy

(Or, Why Isn’t Orange the New Black?) How great am I? As great as one can be. So why do they admire him, not me? The phony press keeps saying he’s got class, Implying I’m a blimp-l…

Jun 21, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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