December 21, 1892: Rebecca West Is Born December 21, 1892: Rebecca West Is Born
“Pleasure is not arbitrary; it is the sign by which the human organization shows that it is performing a function which it finds appropriate to its means and ends.”
Dec 21, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
December 16, 1901: Margaret Mead Is Born December 16, 1901: Margaret Mead Is Born
“The Samoan girl leads a busy, unconscious existence in which impulse and duty appear to play pleasantly correlative roles.”
Dec 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
December 15, 2011: Christopher Hitchens Dies December 15, 2011: Christopher Hitchens Dies
“Posterity is unlikely to deal kindly with his willingness to be a singer in the camp of George W. Bush.”
Dec 15, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
There Is No ‘War on Football’ There Is No ‘War on Football’
The idea that concussion research is a liberal conspiracy is toxic and will hurt kids. It has to stop.
Dec 10, 2015 / Dave Zirin
‘America’s Next Top Model’ Wraps After 22 Seasons of Bigotry ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Wraps After 22 Seasons of Bigotry
Exotic Asians, hot-tempered Latinas, and the original angry black woman—we owe all of these reality TV tropes to Tyra Banks’s fake-empowerment series.
Dec 8, 2015 / Jennifer L. Pozner
Pacific Overtures on Broadway Pacific Overtures on Broadway
At its best, the Japanese-internment musical Allegiance seethes with righteous anger beneath its perkiness and platitudes.
Dec 7, 2015 / Alisa Solomon
An Opera of Permanent Catastrophe, and of Hope An Opera of Permanent Catastrophe, and of Hope
A new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu reveals the explosive powers still manifest in modern art.
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon
Flattened for a Price Flattened for a Price
In her new book The Cosmopolites, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explores the evolution of citizenship and the rise of a new form of statelessness.
Dec 2, 2015 / Fatima Bhutto
Using Art to Expose What Government Hides: An Interview With Laurie Anderson Using Art to Expose What Government Hides: An Interview With Laurie Anderson
Anderson’s conceptual art transported a former Guantánamo detainee, now banned from the US, to New York City.
Nov 19, 2015 / Q&A / Laura Flanders
November 15, 1959: The Clutter Family Is Murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, Later the Subject of Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’ November 15, 1959: The Clutter Family Is Murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, Later the Subject of Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’
“It turns out that what we are really witnessing is a kind of morality play: the conversion of Truman Capote.”
Nov 15, 2015 / Richard Kreitner