Culture

Muhammad Ali: A World Man Muhammad Ali: A World Man

The Champ counterpunches in a letter to The Nation.

Jun 15, 2009 / Letters / The Nation

Michael Moore’s ‘Save Our CEOs’ Campaign Michael Moore’s ‘Save Our CEOs’ Campaign

In this teaser for his upcoming new film, Michael Moore asks us to please help our fellow (corporate) Americans.

Jun 15, 2009 / Books & the Arts / YouTube

Agnew’s Apologia Agnew’s Apologia

Spiro Agnew had his hand out, but all he got for it was a slap on the wrist.

Jun 12, 2009 / Feature / The Editors

Colbert in Iraq: Highlight Reel Colbert in Iraq: Highlight Reel

Ice Cream and puppies don't travel well to Iraq but Stephen Colbert does on his week-long USO broadcast.

Jun 12, 2009 / Video / The Colbert Report

Quarantine Quarantine

Take our mayor, please.

Jun 10, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

On a Monday On a Monday

On a Monday eternity finally begins and the day that follows is scarcely named, and the other is the dark, the done. On that day are extinguished all whispers and the face we loved dissolves in mist-- hope becomes hopeless: no one is coming. Eternity knows nothing of our habits, indifferent to red and the softest blue, it prefers gray, smoke, ashes. You scratch a name and a date on a piece of marble and it rubs them out with a careless shoulder, not even a pinch of bitterness left behind. Yet see, I cling to Mondays and I give the next your name; in total darkness I write with the tip of my cigarette: here have I lived. (Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss)

Jun 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eliseo Diego

Orchids and Lilacs: Darwin, Lincoln and Slavery Orchids and Lilacs: Darwin, Lincoln and Slavery

What are the intellectual costs of recasting Lincoln and Darwin into heroes for our troubled times?

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

Back Talk: Graham Parker Back Talk: Graham Parker

A conversation with the author of Fair Use: Notes From Spam about spam, scambaiters and language games.

Jun 3, 2009 / Back Talk Conversations / Christine Smallwood

Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North

Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

Inquisitions Inquisitions

From Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, tales of the Devil and wise women, torturers and the tortured.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano

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