Disposable People, Dying to Build a City in the Desert

Disposable People, Dying to Build a City in the Desert

Behind the Exploitative Labor Practices that Inspired Temporary People

By Beenish Ahmed | July 20, 2017

Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

On the Appearance of a Literary Icon at the First Women's Marches

By Devoney Looser | July 18, 2017

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Sarah Sentilles on Empathy, Art, and Abu Ghraib

By Sarah Sentilles | July 17, 2017

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

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We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

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

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

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By Hannah Arendt | June 27, 2017

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

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

The Author of Party Girls Die in Pearls on Trump, Brexit, and Getting Political

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

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