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Today 4:54 pm
On Writers, the Media, and the Corruptions of Power
Joel Whitney, whose book Finks is about the CIA’s subversion of US culture, talks about the scars left by the Cold War.
Patrick Lawrence
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Today 2:53 pm
Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian
And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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June 20, 2017
If Trump Is Julius Caesar, Then Americans Are a Confused and Violent Mob
Julius Caesar is hardly an endorsement of assassination—but neither is it the celebration of “small-d democrats” that the Public Theatre wants it to be.
Katha Pollitt
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June 20, 2017
Trump’s Very Honest Cabinet Meeting
“A genuinely historic percentage of the population finds you utterly repellant, Mr. President.”
Tom Tomorrow
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June 19, 2017
Belief in ‘American Gods’
Based on a 2001 novel, the new TV show explores immigration, assimilation, and the march to modernity.
Loren A. Lynch
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June 19, 2017
How to Protect the Environment Where It’s Worked by Human Hands
In Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman, Miriam Horn reminds us what Middle America looks like as a place, not an ideology.
Madeline Ostrander
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June 19, 2017
The Summer of Love Is Far More Relevant Today Than You Think
Fifty years later, the hippies’ rebellion against the national security state is more important than ever.
Ira Chernus
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June 19, 2017
Mary Gaitskill Remains Open to Opposition
The closest thing we get to a precept in Somebody with a Little Hammer is that we should all try to learn to think for ourselves—and, even then, things can go wrong.
Larissa Pham
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June 16, 2017
Adapting ‘Angels in America’
Sometimes, adaptation is a form of redundancy. This new opera, based on Tony Kushner’s 1992 play, is something stirring in its own way and unexpectedly timely.
David Hajdu
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June 15, 2017
Republican Legislators Want You to Think Confederate Monuments Aren’t Political
Under the guise of historical preservation, Southern states have passed laws preventing the removal of Confederate symbols.
Jonathan S. Blake