Agnew’s Apologia Agnew’s Apologia
Spiro Agnew had his hand out, but all he got for it was a slap on the wrist.
Jun 12, 2009 / Feature / The Editors
Colbert in Iraq: Highlight Reel Colbert in Iraq: Highlight Reel
Ice Cream and puppies don't travel well to Iraq but Stephen Colbert does on his week-long USO broadcast.
Jun 12, 2009 / Video / The Colbert Report
On a Monday On a Monday
On a Monday eternity finally begins and the day that follows is scarcely named, and the other is the dark, the done. On that day are extinguished all whispers and the face we loved dissolves in mist-- hope becomes hopeless: no one is coming. Eternity knows nothing of our habits, indifferent to red and the softest blue, it prefers gray, smoke, ashes. You scratch a name and a date on a piece of marble and it rubs them out with a careless shoulder, not even a pinch of bitterness left behind. Yet see, I cling to Mondays and I give the next your name; in total darkness I write with the tip of my cigarette: here have I lived. (Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss)
Jun 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eliseo Diego
Orchids and Lilacs: Darwin, Lincoln and Slavery Orchids and Lilacs: Darwin, Lincoln and Slavery
What are the intellectual costs of recasting Lincoln and Darwin into heroes for our troubled times?
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt
Back Talk: Graham Parker Back Talk: Graham Parker
A conversation with the author of Fair Use: Notes From Spam about spam, scambaiters and language games.
Jun 3, 2009 / Back Talk Conversations / Christine Smallwood
Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North
Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
Inquisitions Inquisitions
From Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, tales of the Devil and wise women, torturers and the tortured.
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano
The Age of Paine The Age of Paine
It was Tom Paine, ink-stained wretch and citizen of the world, who first roused American patriots to action.
Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols
The Smearing of I.F. Stone, Continued The Smearing of I.F. Stone, Continued
As alleged spy conspiracies go, the case against Izzy is thinner than Paris Hilton.
Jun 3, 2009 / Column / Eric Alterman