Cultural Criticism and Analysis

Deep Stories: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Journey into Trump Country

Deep Stories: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Journey into Trump Country Deep Stories: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Journey into Trump Country

For many of Louisiana Tea Partiers, "Democrat" wasn’t a bad word when they were growing up but it is now. The well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild went to the heart...

Sep 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John B. Judis

How Journalism Can Mend Its Broken Relationship With Young People

How Journalism Can Mend Its Broken Relationship With Young People How Journalism Can Mend Its Broken Relationship With Young People

If it doesn’t, everybody loses.

Sep 20, 2016 / StudentNation / Will Anderson

The Get Down

Diamond-Dust Baroque Diamond-Dust Baroque

The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.

Sep 15, 2016 / Joshua Clover

John Berger: The Human, the Artist

John Berger: The Human, the Artist John Berger: The Human, the Artist

In The Seasons in Quincy, we learn little about the former and attempts to celebrate the latter collapse into the elegiac.

Sep 12, 2016 / Anakwa Dwamena

Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars

Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars

Is there any other writer whose work is as strange and hermetic and gloriously, painfully appropriate to the unparalleled shittiness of our times?

Sep 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich

Notes From Many Years

Notes From Many Years Notes From Many Years

Helen Gurley Brown’s ideas about women were often as retrograde as the ones she claimed to fight. Why is she still appealing?

Sep 1, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Madeleine Schwartz

Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel

Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel

The author of a new history of dating talks with Nation advice columnist Liza Featherstone.

Aug 29, 2016 / Q&A / Liza Featherstone

Ieshia Evans in Baton Rouge

A Tale of Two Pictures A Tale of Two Pictures

Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.

Aug 8, 2016 / Joshua Clover

Obama speaking in panel

Why White People Need to Talk About Racism Too Why White People Need to Talk About Racism Too

I’ve inadvertently ended many a conversation by bringing up the issue of race.

Aug 4, 2016 / StudentNation / Zachary R. Wood

An Hour Without Trump

An Hour Without Trump An Hour Without Trump

Susan Faludi on her trans father, Edward Snowden’s lawyer on the NSA, and Tom Lutz on politics and travel.

Aug 4, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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