Trump’s America: Spot the Mistakes Trump’s America: Spot the Mistakes
Iran, Giuliani, Cohen and more!
May 21, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism
Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.
May 21, 2018 / Ellen Schrecker
The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing
A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.
May 17, 2018 / Khalil Gibran Muhammad
A New Embassy in Jerusalem, an Old Struggle in Gaza A New Embassy in Jerusalem, an Old Struggle in Gaza
Amy Wilentz on the American embassy in Israel, Rachel Kushner on The Mars Room, and Patricia J. Williams on the legacy of lynching.
May 17, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Tom Wolfe and Me Tom Wolfe and Me
He exploded on the scene like a New Journalism comet and kept himself aloft by superior, mostly tasteful self-promotion, hard work, and good journalism.
May 16, 2018 / Richard Lingeman
It’s a Witch Hunt! It’s a Witch Hunt!
Or Some witchlike people have disguises that May cover up a black and pointy hat. The one nabbed first of all, to Trump’s chagrin, Was “Lock Her Up” adviser Michael Flynn. Then Man…
May 10, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Turmoil of Fearful Anticipation The Turmoil of Fearful Anticipation
Many of the stories in Dino Buzzati’s Catastrophe are more concerned with paranoia and fear than with dramatic repercussions.
May 9, 2018 / Bradley Babendir
The Magic of Denis Johnson The Magic of Denis Johnson
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden isn't exactly a sequel to Jesus’ Son, but it has the same breezy, epiphanic quality.
May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / J. Robert Lennon
Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s
They weren’t friends, and they weren’t all of the same generation, but they all shared a similar view of how we should relate to nature.
May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben