State of Sleaze
It’s clear that Erdoğan has long wanted to be Turkey’s absolute ruler.
Suzy Hansen
Suzy Hansen is a writer living in Istanbul.
Corruptions of Empire
Editor’s Note, December 6, 2016: This article has been updated to reflect president-elect Trump’s post-election statements and cabinet appointments. A version of this article appeared in print in The Baffler no. 33.
I live in Istanbul and follow American news ...
America’s Long Holiday
BOOK REVIEWED
Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Americanization of Narcissism
Harvard University Press, $35
The twenty-first century, already rich with apocalyptic glimpses of America’s decline, has been a productive era for narcissism. The condition, originally diagnosed by ...