The Worlds of Edward Said The Worlds of Edward Said
An exile who made the world his home, Said infused his literary style with a cosmopolitan ease and his political commitments with a cosmopolitan ethics.
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rashid Khalidi
One Damn Thing After Another One Damn Thing After Another
The long roots of liberal democracy’s crisis.
May 5, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jan-Werner Müller
Letters From the May 4/11, 2020, Issue Letters From the May 4/11, 2020, Issue
The Truth About Lies Susie Linfield warns us against “telling lies” [Letters, April 6], then proceeds to demonstrate her commitment to exactly that by claiming, falsely, that I hav…
Apr 21, 2020 / Noam Chomsky and Our Readers
Pop Music Has Always Been Queer Pop Music Has Always Been Queer
Sasha Geffen’s debut book reveals that the history of pop music is a history of gender rebellion.
Apr 8, 2020 / Q&A / Tal Milovina
This Was Never Just About Woody Allen. It Still Isn’t. This Was Never Just About Woody Allen. It Still Isn’t.
Against the vice cop of the mind.
Mar 27, 2020 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery
But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.
Mar 23, 2020 / Feature / Kali Holloway
A Tale of Two Plagues A Tale of Two Plagues
Tips on self-isolation from Daniel Defoe and Giovanni Boccaccio
Mar 20, 2020 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility
Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.
Mar 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
The Protests That Made and Unmade Japan’s Postwar Left The Protests That Made and Unmade Japan’s Postwar Left
The demonstrations against the Anpo treaty remain the largest protest movement in Japanese history and yet their defeat cleared the path for decades of conservative rule.
Mar 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Colin Jones