Author: Sean McElwee

Columns

The Midterms and the Turn Leftward

Sean McElwee

February 23, 2018

This year, Democrats will pick up a basket of seats, ranging from highly educated and upscale to working-class and rural.

Billy Graham’s Crusades

Chris Lehmann

February 23, 2018

Billy Graham steered clear of the complexities of the modern world and promised his followers serenity and salvation.

The Same F’ing Song

Niela Orr

February 22, 2018

Protests of R. Kelly have returned. What comes next? A singer muted, or a continuation of the same f'ing song?

Fear of a Black Universe

Kaila Philo

February 21, 2018

Can Marvel's Black Panther carry the torch of Black radicalism?

Max Boot’s Vietnam

John Ganz

February 20, 2018

Edward Lansdale does not represent the “Road not Taken” in Vietnam, he is the crystallized essence of the willful blindness that led us there.

A Faster Horse?

Liza Featherstone

February 20, 2018

No one has been more lionized for his contempt for focus groups than Steve Jobs.

The Tyranny of the Takes

Chris Lehmann

February 19, 2018

The real reason that Never Trumpers have the inside track to pundit posts in our papers of record is that a left-led Trump resistance is horrifying to them.

In the House of a Thousand Likes

Zachariah Webb

February 16, 2018

In the heart of the heart of the creative class sits Spring Street Social Society—a membership club for our times.

The Mountain of Everything Keeps on Giving

Matt Hern

February 15, 2018

The Yukon—like the rest of Canada—is saturated with colonialist contradictions.

Temporary Autonomous Taco Zones

Luke Cragg

February 14, 2018

On mourning the loss of a fast food outpost with a candlelight vigil in an asphalt wasteland—and the rise of folk détournement.

Don’t Give Up on Universities

Maximillian Alvarez

February 14, 2018

Antiracist and antifascist politics like #StopSpencer are providing a catalyst for many on campuses to confront anti-democratic power arrangements.

American Mirage

Amber A’Lee Frost

February 14, 2018

We’re happily living in Europe at the moment. She thinks we could live even more happily in America. Did I mention I hate America?