Culture

Jon Stewart’s Brilliant Glenn Beck Parody Jon Stewart’s Brilliant Glenn Beck Parody

Jon Stweart says there's a war going on in America, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs.

Nov 6, 2009 / Video / The Daily Show

Survivors Survivors

Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun

Nov 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Gladwell for Dummies Gladwell for Dummies

Malcolm Gladwell's success as a brand-name thinker rests on the assumption that the unexamined life is the only sort his readers could be living.

Nov 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Maureen Tkacik

Early Capitalism Early Capitalism

they are perfecting the pillow with which you are being suffocated now it sings to you and shows you pictures--

Nov 4, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joe Wenderoth

Linguistic Currency Linguistic Currency

In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.

Nov 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

Deficit Hawk Hysteria Deficit Hawk Hysteria

The time to pay down the deficit will come only after the economy recovers.

Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

The End of the Story? The End of the Story?

Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.

Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lars T. Lih

The Last Yugoslav: On Dusan Makavejev The Last Yugoslav: On Dusan Makavejev

When Yugoslavia disintegrated, so too did the film career of Dusan Makavejev.

Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Richard Byrne

Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989 Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989

The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.

Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny

The Generation That Failed The Generation That Failed

Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.

Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Slavenka Drakulic

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