Teaching Guide December 7, 2015 Issue

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Editorial

ISIS Wants You to Hate Muslims

It’s convinced that Islamophobia—and deeper Western intervention in the Syrian war—will help it attract recruits.
The Editors
Using Art to Expose What Government Hides: An Interview With Laurie Anderson

Anderson’s conceptual art transported a former Guantánamo detainee, now banned from the US, to New York City.
Laura Flanders
A Lesson for Paris Climate Talks: Follow the Activists

At home and abroad, the grassroots wing of the climate movement is disrupting politics as usual. We should pay attention.
Mark Hertsgaard
5 Books That Shed Light on the Cultural Revolution

“The most intriguing books draw out the continuities between contemporary China and its Maoist past.”
Chenxin Jiang
To Defeat ISIS, We Must Call Both Western and Muslim Leaders to Account

And that includes the Saudi kings whose funding of Wahhabi doctrine gave rise to the scourge of Islamic extremism.
Laila Lalami

Column

Ben Carson’s Past and Present

Calvin Trillin
The Crazier the Republican Candidates Sound, the More Popular They Become

Send in the clowns.
Eric Alterman
How the Rich Look Down on Migration

David Brooks’s $120,000 trip around the world shows us that everything looks beautiful from a distance.
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts

The Idea of Houses

Iman Mersal
Raising a Glass With an Arab Nationalist

Iman Mersal
Michael Walzer, Revolutionologist

The political theorist’s new book on national liberation can’t answer one key question: Why have those words become obsolete?
Thomas Meaney
Nothing Remains Unchanged but the Clouds

With his worries about the gigantic power of technology and the minuscule moral illumination it can afford, Walter Benjamin remains our contemporary.
Neima Jahromi
The Window

Iman Mersal
A Poet Who Believed in Nothing As in Love

After first writing poetry to impress and entertain his wealthy parents’ guests, cosmopolitan James Merrill went cosmic.
Ange Mlinko
‘All You Want Is Money! All I Want Is Revolution!’

Before the Tiananmen Square massacre, everyone loved China; now everyone loves the renminbi.
Liao Yiwu
Why Does Ta-Nehisi Coates Say Less Than He Knows?

The journalist’s best-selling memoir offers eloquent testimony to the vulnerability of black life, but it surrenders too much to despair.
Jesse McCarthy

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