De Blasio for NYC Mayor
His candidacy is an opportunity for New Yorkers to reimagine their city in boldly progressive ways.
Print Magazine
September 2-9, 2013 Issue
Cover art by: photograph by Camilo José Vergara, of a Los Angeles mural by Debbie Husband
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Column
The Washington Post’s Dubious Salvation
As the old journalism dies, what does the Bezos era portend?
Letters
Letters
Big Brother: watching, listening and…; nukes on our mind
Feature
Workers ROC the Restaurant Industry
How low-wage food service workers are serving up justice.
How the Streets Honor Martin Luther King Jr.
On city walls across the country, muralists and street artists depict him as a statesman, visionary, hero and martyr.
Books & the Arts
Showing, Saying, Whistling: On Lorna Simpson and Ahlam Shibli
Two photographers focus on the difficulties of putting words to what one sees.
Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande
Wake Up and Live! reveals the connection between the radical individualism of 1930s self-help manuals and fascist politics.
Fichte’s Way
Johann Gottlieb Fichte undertook a pure search for truth. He also distrusted international markets. Does that make him an ancestor to anti-globalization activists?
‘Atlantic Rim’: Chomsky v. Zizek
An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.
How the Streets Honor Martin Luther King Jr.
On city walls across the country, muralists and street artists depict him as a statesman, visionary, hero and martyr.
