Feeling Politics: On D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski’s “Democracies in America”
Mark Eaton reviews “Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today,” edited by D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski.
Mark Eaton reviews “Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today,” edited by D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski.
Mark EatonSep 10, 2023
Historian Daniela Blei beautifully captures the essence of Uwe Wittstock’s newly translated “February 1933: The Winter of Literature.”
Daniela BleiSep 6, 2023
Aniko Bodroghkozy writes about the tiki torch march in Charlottesville and the media-savvy aspects of the alt-right.
Aniko BodroghkozySep 6, 2023
Alessandro Camon discusses the WGA/SAG strike as a turning point for Hollywood.
Alessandro CamonSep 3, 2023
Laurie L. Levenson reviews Miriam Aroni Krinsky’s “Change from Within: Reimagining the 21st-Century Prosecutor” and discusses the “progressive...
Laurie L. LevensonAug 30, 2023
Dara Rossman Regaignon explores what George Eliot’s Victorian fiction can tell us about the complexities of pregnancy, viability, miscarriage...
Dara Rossman RegaignonAug 28, 2023
Jerald Podair, Zach Messitte, and Charles J. Holden reconsider the legacy of Spiro Agnew.
Zach Messitte, Charles J. Holden, Jerald PodairAug 27, 2023
Jodi Dean reviews Sohrab Ahmari’s “Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What To Do About It” and Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime...
Jodi DeanAug 25, 2023
Kathryn Cramer Brownell on the electoral transformations wrought by cable news and the evolving media landscape.
Kathryn Cramer BrownellAug 23, 2023
Kate Durbin speaks with author Amanda Montei about her new book “Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control.”
Kate DurbinAug 18, 2023
The engine of the right-wing movement is a narrative about social disgrace, according to Anthony Nadler and Doron Taussig.
Anthony Nadler, Doron TaussigAug 16, 2023
Stephen Rohde discusses Samantha Barbas’s new book on free speech and civil rights, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in ’New...
Stephen RohdeAug 13, 2023
Jonah Siegel explores the complicated implications of repatriating art.
Jonah SiegelAug 10, 2023
Stephen Rohde reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.”
Stephen RohdeAug 4, 2023
Grace Lavery reviews Julie Bindel’s “Feminism for Women: The Real Tribute to Liberation,” Helen Joyce’s “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,” and...
Grace LaveryJul 31, 2023
Andrew Ahern reviews Kohei Saito’s “Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism.”
Andrew AhernJul 23, 2023
Kurt David reviews Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot series, “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” and “A Psalm for the Wild-Built.”
Kurt DavidJul 20, 2023
Hector Villagra reviews Joanna Schwartz’s “Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable.”
Hector VillagraJul 14, 2023
Tim Hirschel-Burns reviews Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction.”
Tim Hirschel-BurnsJul 13, 2023
Edward Carver reviews David Graeber’s posthumous “Pirate Enlightenment, or The Real Libertalia.”
Edward CarverJul 11, 2023
David N. Myers reviews Max Czollek’s “De-integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century.”
David N. MyersJul 10, 2023
With its seventh installment looming, Pat Cassels details the way the “Mission: Impossible” franchise became an unlikely chronicler of American...
Pat CasselsJul 8, 2023
Gabriel J. Chin reviews Peter Irons’s “White Men’s Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism,” a study of the history of racism in the laws of the United...
Gabriel J. ChinJul 4, 2023
Sarah Dowling reviews Elsa Dorlin’s “Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence.”
Sarah DowlingJul 3, 2023