Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk
We all know about Norman Rockwell. But it was Szyk who best conveyed the life-or-death urgency of the struggle against fascism.
Jan 8, 2016 / Allison Claire Chang
Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go
Rick Perlstein on the Chicago mayor; Adam Gopnik and Amy Wilentz on Charlie Hebdo; and Rebecca Solnit on climate change in the Himalayas.
Jan 7, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Puzzle No. 3386 Puzzle No. 3386
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 What’s heard from both sides of America: Deconstruct Shaw, including the start of Candida (5) 4 Effervescent cast…
Jan 7, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Many Manipulations of Henry Kissinger The Many Manipulations of Henry Kissinger
In his new biography, Niall Ferguson is blind to his subject’s recklessness and treachery.
Jan 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David Milne
Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests
A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence.
Jan 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg
Hodgepodge, Mismatch, and Wild Disproportion Hodgepodge, Mismatch, and Wild Disproportion
Dueling satirical films about white-supremacist America, and how not to be an imbecile when criticizing Star Wars.
Jan 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘Gifts of Thought to Europe From an Intimate Stranger’ ‘Gifts of Thought to Europe From an Intimate Stranger’
A brilliant exhibit in London uses archival fragments to tell a story of violence and creation.
Jan 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Yasmine Seale
Remembering Haskell Wexler, Genius Cinematographer and Committed Leftist Remembering Haskell Wexler, Genius Cinematographer and Committed Leftist
For more than six decades, Haskell Wexler spoke to the public through the movies he made.
Jan 4, 2016 / Stuart Klawans
Michael Moore Has a Plan to Make America Great Again Michael Moore Has a Plan to Make America Great Again
Jan 4, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Genocidal Unconscious of American Sports’ Naming Practices The Genocidal Unconscious of American Sports’ Naming Practices
The Texas Rangers bear the moniker of America’s most celebrated death squad.
Jan 4, 2016 / Greg Grandin