The Best and the Brightest The Best and the Brightest
Let them flip burgers.
Mar 18, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Jon Stewart Rips the Notorious AIG Jon Stewart Rips the Notorious AIG
Everyone is outraged at the AIG bonuses, Jon Stewart points out these days that's worth about as much as the company's stock.
Mar 18, 2009 / The Daily Show
Lingo: What Child Is This? Lingo: What Child Is This?
This is Lingo, a new occasional column about language. Is language acquisition uncanny or orphic?
Mar 17, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Colbert Will Hunt Down AIG Bonus Babies With Pitchforks Colbert Will Hunt Down AIG Bonus Babies With Pitchforks
Stephen Colbert offers to lead an angry mob to recover the taxpayer-funded AIG bonuses.
Mar 17, 2009 / The Colbert Report
V. Norman Thomas–Why Not? V. Norman Thomas–Why Not?
During the 1932 presidential campaign when there seemed to be little separating the Republicans from the Democrats, Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas found a new audience for th...
Mar 12, 2009 / Feature / Devere Allen
The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills
A half-century later, re-evaluating the works of C. Wright Mills, in The Politics of Truth.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Norman Birnbaum
A Tough Flower Girl: On Norman Maclean A Tough Flower Girl: On Norman Maclean
In Norman Maclean's stories, tragedy comes garlanded in a prose style nearly unsurpassed for its bright flashes of remembrance, its whispers out of time.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Philip Connors
Back Talk: Elaine Showalter Back Talk: Elaine Showalter
A conversation with the author of A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Sallow, Queer, Sagacious: Lincoln Through the Ages Sallow, Queer, Sagacious: Lincoln Through the Ages
A new anthology of essays captures the many faces of Lincoln over the decades.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
Philadelphia Rising Philadelphia Rising
The mayor's budget plan would close libraries. The people say, Think again.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert S. Eshelman