Culture

Revolution & #Resistance: The Life and Times of Lauren Duca

Revolution & #Resistance: The Life and Times of Lauren Duca Revolution & #Resistance: The Life and Times of Lauren Duca

She wants to lead a youth movement, but her first book says more about a media ecosystem that helped produce her than radical action.

Nov 21, 2019 / Haley Mlotek

The Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Climate Change: Worker Power

The Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Climate Change: Worker Power The Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Climate Change: Worker Power

Capitalists created the climate crisis. But a low-carbon labor movement can help solve it.

Nov 20, 2019 / Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos

From ‘outside voices, please’

From ‘outside voices, please’ From ‘outside voices, please’

I grew drunk on the dragonflies’ ultra Three times I asked our misogynistic uncle, the family patriarch, for money for books for the girls to which he then scoffed drunkenly throwi…

Nov 19, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Valerie Hsiung

Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham, Legal Scholar Lindsey Graham, Legal Scholar

“It’s impossible to bring this case forward, in my view, fairly without us knowing who the whistle-blower is and having a chance to cross-examine them.”—Senator Lindsey Graham Th…

Nov 19, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Up in Smoke

Up in Smoke Up in Smoke

Vaping manufactures hit their target market.

Nov 19, 2019 / OppArt / Paul Karasik

The Songs of Canceled Men

The Songs of Canceled Men The Songs of Canceled Men

A new book revisits the lives of artists like James Brown, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra and asks how music criticism can reckon with the lives of immoral artists.

Nov 19, 2019 / Joe Bucciero

Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology

Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology Ted Chiang’s Sci-Fi Goes Beyond the Promise of Technology

In his short story collection Exhalation, he builds social worlds where every character and object is deeply intertwined in history and in future possibility.

Nov 19, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse

Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ Is a Startling Study of Power

Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ Is a Startling Study of Power Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ Is a Startling Study of Power

As the contemporary film landscape heralds the coming of a class war, Diop’s beautiful movie reckons with capital and labor in groundbreaking fashion.

Nov 18, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Namwali Serpell

How Should We Remember the Puritans?

How Should We Remember the Puritans? How Should We Remember the Puritans?

In his new book, Daniel Rodgers not only offers a close reading of Puritan history but also seeks to rescue their early critique of market economy.

Nov 18, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Delbanco

Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War

Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War

Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism.

Nov 18, 2019 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh

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