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Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

The Ongoing and Depressing Relevance of a 200-Year-Old Thinker

By Emily Temple | July 12, 2017

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

By Howard Zinn | July 12, 2017

When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

On the Responsibility of Writers, White and Black, to Write the Other

By Brian Platzer | July 11, 2017

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

"In Some Ways, Literature and the Arts Help to Make the World Bearable"

By Sam O'Hana | July 7, 2017

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

Comics Creator Jason Lutes on a Project That's Spanned Half his Life

By Daniel A. Gross | July 7, 2017

Have Journalists Forgotten to Think Like Readers?

Have Journalists Forgotten to Think Like Readers?

A Modest Proposal to Save the Media: Tell It To Me Like a Six-Year-Old

By Caren Lissner | July 6, 2017

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We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

By Sarah Sentilles | July 6, 2017

Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt on What Freedom and Revolution Really Mean

By Hannah Arendt | June 27, 2017

Plum Sykes: You Know It's Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

By Plum Sykes | June 23, 2017

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

A New Book Traces These Origins to NYC's 1970s Financial Crisis

By Isaac Kaplan | June 22, 2017

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

By Ed Simon | June 21, 2017

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Lawrence Lenhart Offers a Very Personal Case Study in Rust Belt Decline

By Lawrence Lenhart | June 20, 2017

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Susan Rieger Finds Him Everywhere, From Twain to Wharton to Lewis...

By Susan Rieger | June 20, 2017

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Speaking with Manal al-Sharif about Defiance and Disclosure

By Sabrina Toppa | June 19, 2017

What Would Kurt Vonnegut Think of Donald Trump?

What Would Kurt Vonnegut Think of Donald Trump?

At this Trumpian moment, we have to come to a Vonnegutian conclusion

By Marc Leeds | June 15, 2017

The Hollow Mythology of Ronald Reagan

The Hollow Mythology of Ronald Reagan

No One Really Cared When Dutch Asked Gorbachev to 'Tear Down This Wall'

By Tim Mohr | June 12, 2017

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