Tag: politics

Columns

The Usual Suspects

Jacob Bacharach

November 07, 2017

The Kevin Spacey scandal highlights the problem of “the open secret.”

The Perishable Politician

Antoine Lilti

October 19, 2017

Our enduring, unhealthy relationship with celebrity presidents.

Trumpspeak

Joshua McDonald

October 12, 2017

I trained a Markov chain to generate the following paragraphs of Trumpese.

President Lisa Simpson

Tom Whyman

October 04, 2017

Lover of austerity economics, mouthpiece of an educated elite. Behold the future: President Lisa Simpson.

Élite Politesse

Kyle Paoletta

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 President of Blank Sucking Nullity

David Roth

August 22, 2017

Any attempt at psychologizing Trump should begin and end here: he is a blank sucking void of vanity and appetite.

Sweet, Sweet Phantasy

Tom Whyman

August 03, 2017

Corbyn supporters have chosen the playful magic of phantasy over the reality principle, and it's starting to work.

Spicer, Racked

Jason Linkins

July 21, 2017

There’s no real need to speak of Spicer’s legacy in complicated terms. He was not good.

The Ministry of Politainment

Jonathon Sturgeon

July 07, 2017

The throughline from Reagan to Trump is turning the citizenry into an audience of passive consumers.

Minor Character Assassination

Anjum Hasan

June 15, 2017

Most authors who reclaim minor characters from the canon aren’t giving voice to the voiceless—they’re being shallow.

Flint, Beyond the Crisis

Hanif Abdurraqib

May 26, 2017

To call what is happening in Flint, Michigan a “water crisis” feels both exact and not. I’m not sure there’s other language that is as definite, short, and sharp for what was a massive institutional failure on many levels, spanning several years. The story, well ...

The Gospel According to Mitch

Maximillian Alvarez

May 16, 2017

“And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”                        —Luke 16:15   It will surprise no one to hear that ...