Get Happy!! Get Happy!!
For Margaret Thatcher as for today’s happiness industry, there is no such thing as society.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears
The Seafarer The Seafarer
Stories of shipwreck and drift are Hollywood’s new allegories of national ruin.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
China U. China U.
Confucius Institutes censor political discussions and restrain the free exchange of ideas. Why, then, do American universities sponsor them?
Oct 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Marshall Sahlins
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Emily Brady’s Humboldt explains why the legalization of pot could cause the biggest economic bust in California’s history.
Oct 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Kate Murphy
History’s Sinkhole History’s Sinkhole
How did the US-Mexican border become the place where the American past chokes on itself?
Oct 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Jim Crow II Jim Crow II
A history of the fight for voting rights and the movement to restrict them once again.
Oct 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman
Sinners Sinners
Jia Zhangke’s Touch of Sin, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, and other highs (and lows) from the New York Film Festival.
Oct 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Denise Levertov’s poetic communion with the world.
Oct 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
The Long and Short of Memory The Long and Short of Memory
What the modern science of memory owes to the amnesiac patient H.M.
Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Charles Gross
Dignity’s Due Dignity’s Due
Why are philosophers invoking the notion of human dignity to revitalize theories of political ethics?
Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn