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Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe

Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe

He was blithely unaware of how his journalistic cutting edge sliced one family into ribbons—mine.

Jun 1, 2018 / Feature / Jamie Bernstein

Finding a Way Back Home

Finding a Way Back Home Finding a Way Back Home

The many Philip Roths.

May 25, 2018 / David Marcus

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Letters From the June 18-15, 2018, Issue Letters From the June 18-15, 2018, Issue

The devil in the details… Massing replies… The ACLU forsworn…

May 24, 2018 / Our Readers and Michael Massing

Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor

Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor

Even after Emancipation, Kossula Oluales spent the rest of his life trying to recover what was lost.

May 23, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques

Army-McCarthy hearings

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

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s

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

Pledge of Allegiance by Dorothea Lange

No Barbed Wire, No Guard Towers No Barbed Wire, No Guard Towers

The photographic legacy of the WWII-era detainment of Japanese Americans is itself a product of historical forces.  

May 4, 2018 / Madeleine Han

A History of 19th-Century Britain Without the People

A History of 19th-Century Britain Without the People A History of 19th-Century Britain Without the People

David Cannadine’s Victorious Century focuses on high politics to the exclusion of nearly everything else.

Apr 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans

80 Days That Changed America

80 Days That Changed America 80 Days That Changed America

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates. Two new projects explain why.

Apr 23, 2018 / Joan Walsh

How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump

How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump

To understand why evangelicals support the president, look to the first Protestant.

Apr 19, 2018 / Feature / Michael Massing

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