JD Vance Shows That the Future of the GOP Is in Racist Conspiracy Theories JD Vance Shows That the Future of the GOP Is in Racist Conspiracy Theories
Trump’s deluded fantasies have now become the GOP gospel.
Oct 18, 2024 / Jeet Heer
JD Vance Is Working Hard to Be Hated JD Vance Is Working Hard to Be Hated
For the Republican candidate, riling up the right-wing base outweighs alienating everyone else.
Sep 30, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Myths of Anne Carson The Myths of Anne Carson
Throughout her long and prolific career, Carson has specialized in unexpected juxtapositions between modern life and ancient times, contemporary art and the literature of the...
Jun 4, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Emily Wilson
Campus Protesters Were Right to Spurn Peggy Noonan, Emblem of Media Obtuseness Campus Protesters Were Right to Spurn Peggy Noonan, Emblem of Media Obtuseness
Our narcissistic media elite doesn’t understand why their lies have made young people wary.
May 6, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Where Is the Leftist Critique of Hamas? Where Is the Leftist Critique of Hamas?
What is the view of most of the organizations and activists in the Palestinian solidarity movement about Hamas? The answer remains unclear—and rarely talked about.
Apr 17, 2024 / Hillel Schenker
Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis? Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis?
In honoring a book depicting Ukrainian volunteers in the Waffen SS as heroes and patriots, the group reveals historical ignorance—or indifference to antisemitism.
Apr 10, 2024 / Lev Golinkin
Art During Wartime Art During Wartime
Can it really be that to call for sympathy with victims of murder and kidnapping is necessarily to demand violence in return?
Mar 14, 2024 / Barry Schwabsky
The Nixonian “New York Times” Stonewalls on a Discredited Article About Hamas and Rape The Nixonian “New York Times” Stonewalls on a Discredited Article About Hamas and Rape
The newspaper of record botches an important story about sexual violence on October 7.
Mar 1, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Party of Lincoln Is Really the Party of Calhoun The Party of Lincoln Is Really the Party of Calhoun
Nikki Haley and Greg Abbott echo the theorist of secession.
Feb 2, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Christina Sharpe and the Art of Everyday Black Life Christina Sharpe and the Art of Everyday Black Life
In Ordinary Notes, Sharpe considers Black culture “in all of its shade and depth and glow.”
Dec 13, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Omari Weekes