Culture

Eric Posner’s Democracy for the Few

Eric Posner’s Democracy for the Few Eric Posner’s Democracy for the Few

A conservative gadfly joins “the Resistance.”

Aug 24, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

Margaret Sanger

Canceling Margaret Sanger Only Helps Abortion Opponents Canceling Margaret Sanger Only Helps Abortion Opponents

When Planned Parenthood took the name of the organization’s founder off its flagship clinic in Manhattan, they bought into anti-choice propaganda. 

Aug 20, 2020 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The Radical Afterlives of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

The Radical Afterlives of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha The Radical Afterlives of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

The South Korean–born author of Dictée was killed at 31. Four decades later, her landmark experimental novel is poised for wider rediscovery.

Aug 20, 2020 / Mayukh Sen

What Populism Is and Is Not

What Populism Is and Is Not What Populism Is and Is Not

Thomas Frank’s history of anti-populism helps clarify one of the most contested terms in politics. 

Aug 19, 2020 / Ed Burmila

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Trump’s Post Office Sabotage Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg Trump’s Post Office Sabotage Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg

Here's what the president’s been up to, in between retweeting conspiracies.

Aug 18, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow

The Two Maria Schneiders

The Two Maria Schneiders The Two Maria Schneiders

The auteurist and activist impulses of her expansive jazz comes together on Data Lords.

Aug 17, 2020 / David Hajdu

Neil Young

Neil Young’s Journey Through the Past Neil Young’s Journey Through the Past

As he prepares to vote in his first American election, the eccentric singer-songwriter’s Archives project unearths his own lost history.

Aug 14, 2020 / John Semley

Who Gets to Tell the Story of Wuhan’s Lockdown?

Who Gets to Tell the Story of Wuhan’s Lockdown? Who Gets to Tell the Story of Wuhan’s Lockdown?

On Fang Fang’s quarantine journal and the political limits of the diary.

Aug 13, 2020 / Jaime Chu

Trump with hands outstretched

Presidential Diagnosis Presidential Diagnosis

He tweets wacko theories. He rants and he raves. His language decay is steady. The question is asked: Is he falling apart— Or was he apart already?…

Aug 11, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

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Aug 11, 2020 / Peter Kuper

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