Lost in Boston
April 03, 2018
On the fiftieth anniversary of Astral Weeks: we're a long way from Boston's music scene in 1968.
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Another Sorry Snob
Laura Ingraham: Must be a right-wing snob—went to Dartmouth.
Fresh Hell
March 30, 2018
God grant us the serenity to accept the depravities of the market we cannot change.
The Civil-izing Process
March 29, 2018
Civil’s business model is genuinely innovative, if also bizarre. Welcome to journalism powered by the blockchain.
We Were Supposed to Accomplish Something
You're old and you hate your job. It's time to get self-directed, friendly, and civic-minded.
Festung High School
March 27, 2018
Trump's “hardening” of schools in the wake of recent shootings is a reversion to the bunker mentality of the nuclear age.
No Mothers, No Daughters
March 27, 2018
Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press.
I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...
New to the Trump Team
Trump's newest economics guru, Larry Kudlow. Whatever the question, he has the answer: Lower taxes.
The Book of No Despair
March 26, 2018
Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.
Dr. Zuckerstein’s Monster
March 23, 2018
Victor Frankenstein wasn’t cut out to be an avenging hero.
Fresh Hell
March 23, 2018
It seems our collective penchant for plastic straws may actually spell our doom.
Man Out of Time
March 23, 2018
Pete Peterson was another billionaire who was so concerned with the federal deficit that he preached the need for austerity—for the rest of us.