Is Impeachment Only About Getting a Conviction? Is Impeachment Only About Getting a Conviction?
A new history of Andrew Johnson’s trial reminds us the impeachment is not only a tool to constrain executive abuse of power, but also a way to publicize dissent on matters of polic...
Jan 30, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie McCurry
In the Beginning, Run In the Beginning, Run
Ninety days in the dark on your back in chains and you don’t know where you’re going. I kept picturing the grin of the salesman as the sai…
Jan 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Harmony Holiday
Does Liberalism Have Its Roots in the Illiberal Upheavals of the English Reformation? Does Liberalism Have Its Roots in the Illiberal Upheavals of the English Reformation?
A recent book argues that liberalism has an “unexpected debt” to evangelical religion.
Jan 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Keith Thomas
A Witness to the Rise of Big Data A Witness to the Rise of Big Data
Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley offers an insider’s look into how Silicon Valley start-ups changed not just our economy but also our culture and politics.
Jan 27, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano
The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips
For the living, water. And now, you’re all the wells mined for their depth. All of the silence & all of the alls I can conjure. You are not in the living room. You are not in y…
Jan 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Andrés Cerpa
Is Anti-Monopolism Enough? Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?
In Goliath, Matt Stoller argues that US history has been defined by a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but to understand inequality today requires engaging with questions o...
Jan 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant
Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage
American Spy examines the intersections between spycraft and living in America as a black person.
Jan 20, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
Opinion Opinion
It was a lean-to one could live in so long as it never rained. It was a grain of salt close up, looking like a crystal, growing from itself like an outcrop of land. I…
Jan 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Militello
Formalwear Formalwear
“everything takes form, even infinity” —Gaston Bachelard, from The Dialectics of Outside and Inside So I died. Then I filled out a form. It asked how I made do & a living &…
Jan 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Devon Walker-Figueroa
The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez
His fiction and nonfiction can be seen as facets of a single, lifelong narrative enterprise.
Jan 13, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Tony Wood