It’s Not the Party—It’s the Policies It’s Not the Party—It’s the Policies
Inequality has risen under Republicans and Democrats when they’ve embraced neoliberalism.
Sep 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Pollin
It Was Heaven That They Burned It Was Heaven That They Burned
Who is Rigoberta Menchú?
Sep 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Dogged Truths Dogged Truths
My Dog Tulip; Last Train Home; Heartbreaker; Machete
Sep 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
How Much Do We Learn From the First Cut of History? How Much Do We Learn From the First Cut of History?
One year later, the blockbuster Game Change can be read as much for how little election narratives explain about history as for the story of the 2008 campaign.
Sep 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Julian E. Zelizer
Bluer Rather Than Pinker Bluer Rather Than Pinker
How much does language tell us what to see, and hence what to think?
Sep 7, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Ten Things the Past Can Teach Us Today Ten Things the Past Can Teach Us Today
"Live as if you are free" and other lessons of the past can help us build a progressive future.
Sep 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Unequal Sacrifice Unequal Sacrifice
Why are poorer and less-educated citizens more likely to die in America's wars?
Sep 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich
Busted: Stories of the Financial Crisis Busted: Stories of the Financial Crisis
The one thing that a thousand books written from within the financial crisis won't contemplate is the possibility of an unhappy ending for capitalism.
Sep 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Peregrine Peregrine
The peregrine don't bother with the beak and feet and toss them to the sidewalk off the top of the Methodist's tower like KFC out the window of a speeding car of drunks, sparrow and pigeon parts on the sidewalk, a roadside litter, the road here in this case is the sky. It rains blood more literally than it always does and the birds of prey have non-metallic feathers. Everyone in Chicago has read in the Times, coyotes prefer Mc D's. Our kind of wild life steps right up, robs the joint in the disguise of himself he knows no one would believe. True, animals don't use human technologies, but the changes in us, because of such advances, advance the animal relation to us. They've necessarily learned vicariously what they need to know of how two-legged technologies run; they keep up with us the same way the dumbest button pusher keeps up with the MIT computer engineer. Not rocket science, but enough to know what it does is there to work around or with whatever it is. Adaptation is an education in more fields than we imagine.
Sep 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ed Roberson
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Ruth Harris's Dreyfus; Deborah Amos's Eclipse of the Sunnis.
Sep 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella