Who’s Afraid of the Russian Soul?
To speak of the character or “soul” of an entire country—one that spans two continents—is to give up on understanding out of preference for feelings.
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Whitewash
Like a recumbent sloth jolted into a panicked flight response, David Brooks has belatedly noticed the rancid politics of right-wing racial confrontation.
Camping Trip
Corey Pein talks with Andrea Pitzer about concentration camps.
Finger-Lickin’ Lulz
August 30, 2017
KFC’s creepy virtual-reality publicity stunt is but a hint of things to come in the exciting world of late capitalism’s cyberpunk dystopia.
The Pizzagate Polity
August 29, 2017
When Trump talks tough on sex trafficking, Pizzagate conspiracy theorists hear him singing their song.
Mattress Mack Will Save You
August 28, 2017
I must admit I am a tad ticked that it has taken destructive winds and inundation to land my city on the minds of the cultured.
The Destructive Character
So long as straight white men rule culture and politics, the dangerous oddball white guy will linger in media.
Weekly Bafflements
August 25, 2017
“The do-nothing option is pretty gruesome.”
As a hurricane heads toward Texas, take a minute to read this 2016 piece from the New York Times which outlines the potential devastation of just such a scenario.
Seriously though, everyone knew this was coming.
The Texas ...
General McMaster and the Miniskirts
It was the miniskirts that did it. For many long months of Donald Trump’s unhinged presidency, his collection of stern-faced generals had been begging to send more troops into Afghanistan to stop hemorrhaging losses to the ascendant Taliban. The president did not want to do ...
Élite Politesse
August 23, 2017
When, in 2012, the copy editor Mary Norris took to The New Yorker’s website to defend its comma usage against the charge that it was “nutty,” a new era in the history of the magazine’s style was inaugurated. Norris was suddenly impossible to escape, extemporizing on ...
The People’s Platform Goes to Washington
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...
The President of Blank Sucking Nullity
August 22, 2017
Any attempt at psychologizing Trump should begin and end here: he is a blank sucking void of vanity and appetite.