White Knight Syndrome
FBI agents Dale Cooper and James Comey are throwbacks to an idyllic past. They should stay there.
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K Street Taxpocalypse
December 04, 2017
Neglect founded on hypocrisy regarding the deficit implications of giant tax cuts is not new for the GOP.
Reading like a Bureaucrat
December 04, 2017
“Perhaps it is just as well that writers do not have political power,” wrote Steinbeck after receiving ideas from Faulkner.
Fresh Hell
December 01, 2017
This motherfucker’s name is CHAZ.
Novelist Emma Cline has a shitty ex-boyfriend who puts our shitty ex-boyfriends to shame. This shitty ex-boyfriend hired a shitty lawyer to do incredibly shitty things. Hopefully both the shitty ex and the shitty lawyer get ...
Show Workers the Money!
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. ...
Sucking Up to the Saudis
Thomas Friedman imagines a Saudi-led moderation, yet militant protests in Pakistan suggest otherwise.
Paradise Tossed
November 30, 2017
Stephen Greenblatt’s new book blames everything on Adam and Eve, but not in a religious way.
The Precocious Socialist
High school is a noise opera of capitalist blathering. It sort of gets better?
Administering Evil
The modern neoliberal university has no solid answer for someone like Richard Spencer.
The Longest Miles
November 28, 2017
I convinced myself of an extreme position, that the miles racket could be manipulated to turn the tables on the free market.
Pets or Livestock?
Anthony Levandowski's AI church, the Way of the Future, reminds us that the Silicon Valley power elite is utterly beguiled with gnosticism.
Who’s Afraid of the DNC?
November 27, 2017
It took all of five minutes for Tom Perez to quote Hamilton.