Culture

Oliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’

Oliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’ Oliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’

Stone on his new Snowden biopic, Dave Zirin on Colin Kaepernick, and Margo Jefferson on Negroland.

Sep 15, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Black as We Wanna Be

Black as We Wanna Be Black as We Wanna Be

Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.

Sep 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Matthew McKnight

A Lion in Winter

A Lion in Winter A Lion in Winter

Jürgen Habermas remains an indispensable guide to the unfinished project of democratic consciousness and enlightenment.

Sep 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon

North Korean Nuclear Missiles

How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas? How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas?

The documentary Command and Control shows just how horrifyingly vulnerable we are to errors involving nuclear weapons.

Sep 13, 2016 / William D. Hartung

Who Freed the Slaves?

Who Freed the Slaves? Who Freed the Slaves?

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

Sep 13, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie McCurry

John Berger: The Human, the Artist

John Berger: The Human, the Artist John Berger: The Human, the Artist

In The Seasons in Quincy, we learn little about the former and attempts to celebrate the latter collapse into the elegiac.

Sep 12, 2016 / Anakwa Dwamena

Top 5 Craziest Moments of the 2016 Campaign

Top 5 Craziest Moments of the 2016 Campaign Top 5 Craziest Moments of the 2016 Campaign

Spoiler alert: They’re mostly about Donald Trump.

Sep 9, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan

Affliction and Salvation

Affliction and Salvation Affliction and Salvation

Love was a learned art for Iris Murdoch, because it involved realizing that something other than the self is real.

Sep 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

ignore this…

Sep 8, 2016 / Matt Bors

Puzzle No. 3407

Puzzle No. 3407 Puzzle No. 3407

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 They are needed to be a surgeon, or a race-car driver? (4,5,6)  9 Unsophisticated woman rebuilt engine around the m…

Sep 8, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

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