The Group: On George Price The Group: On George Price
The enigma of George Price: He derived an equation for the evolution of altruism, yet he died believing himself a failed good Samaritan.
Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Miriam Markowitz
Sardines Sardines
is a yellow, red, orange, black & green word. I got sardines at the dollar store where everything except sardines is more than a dollar, for sixty cents, as they should be my father used to take sardine sandwiches to work perhaps therefore, I love sardines. when people used to talk about the subway, they'd say: we were packed like sardines which sends a message: small, cheap, tightly packed, anchovies for the poor or you too can be colorful & inexpensive as a really snappy, tiny bright blue convertible in which you can enjoy the good things about feeling like a sardine but maybe you'd rather be a striped bass or be a manatee with mev or a grand whale, forgetful of nothing even being so big, the ocean's CEO, you'll take home a giant amount of cash when the ocean goes bust so you can share it even with the downtrodden sardines who get packed in cans in Thailand & shipped to the family dollar store for Bernadette
Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Bernadette Mayer
Good-Enough Objects: On Craft Good-Enough Objects: On Craft
How did craft become a calling that dare not speak its name?
Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Woodward: Obama Wants Out of Afghanistan Woodward: Obama Wants Out of Afghanistan
Obama is aware of the danger of morphing into George W. Bush.
Sep 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Bob Dreyfuss
History Helps Students Understand the Present, but not When History’s Cut From The School Curriculum History Helps Students Understand the Present, but not When History’s Cut From The School Curriculum
After taking an enlightening AP European History course, the author hopes that enrichment courses will survive the budget cuts to education.
Sep 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Demetrius Shahmehri
A Summary of What the ‘New York Times’ Discovered About John Boehner’s Ties to Corporate Lobbyists A Summary of What the ‘New York Times’ Discovered About John Boehner’s Ties to Corporate Lobbyists
It really couldn't be plainer.
Sep 16, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century
The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainst...
Sep 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Dreier
Noted. Noted.
Teresa Stack remembers our colleague Gene Case; Esther Kaplan reports on Sarah Shourd's return home from Iran.
Sep 15, 2010 / Various Contributors
A Wink and a Con: On W.L. Gresham A Wink and a Con: On W.L. Gresham
In Nightmare Alley, whoever you are, you can always depend on the cruelty of strangers.
Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Midst Midst
We're all saying the same thing now, scolding the same shadow, not in harmony, but in sync or by turns. Singing that bar about the flock taking off "as if" it were one body— as if this was one body— and who could be listening?
Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout