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Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor Posture
The 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.
by
Zoe Adams
via
The Nation
on
November 20, 2024
The Complex Politics of Tribal Enrollment
How did the U.S. government become involved in “adjudicating Indianness”?
by
Rachel Monroe
via
The New Yorker
on
November 20, 2024
Scratching the Surface
How geology shaped American culture.
by
Jacob Mikanowski
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
November 20, 2024
The “Fascist” With a Popular Majority
Donald Trump’s victory will inevitably reopen the “fascism debate.” But does a populist whose appeal cuts across diverse groups truly fit the fascist profile?
by
Tristan Hughes
via
Jacobin
on
November 19, 2024
The Second Abolition
Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century.
by
Manisha Sinha
via
The Nation
on
November 19, 2024
What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest?
From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.
by
Adam Gopnik
via
The New Yorker
on
November 18, 2024
The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S.
Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.
by
Margaret Talbot
via
The New Yorker
on
November 18, 2024
What the New Right Learned in School
Many of today's most influential right-wing tactics and arguments have their roots in 1960s-era college campuses.
by
Emily M. Brooks
via
Contingent
on
November 17, 2024
Review of "America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life"
We see what we want to see from philosophers such as Locke not because he wrote for our time (or “all time”) but because we imagine he did.
by
Raymond Haberski Jr.
via
American Literary History
on
November 15, 2024
FDR’s Compliant Justices
The Supreme Court’s deference to FDR during World War II resulted in unjustifiable ethical breaches.
by
Jed S. Rakoff
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
Testing is necessary. The SAT’s creator is not.
by
Naomi Schaefer Riley
via
Commentary
on
November 13, 2024
Today’s Echoes of the First ‘America First’
Charles Lindbergh’s ideology prefigured Donald Trump’s—and was rightly disgraced.
by
Casey Michel
via
The Bulwark
on
November 13, 2024
States’ Rights or Inalienable Rights?
Some early progressives may have been advocates of states’ rights, but they misunderstood the philosophy of the American Founding.
by
Samuel Postell
via
Law & Liberty
on
November 13, 2024
How R.E.M. Created Alternative Music
In the cultural wasteland of the Reagan era, they showed that a band could have mass appeal without being cheesy, or nostalgic, or playing hair metal.
by
Mark Krotov
via
The New Yorker
on
November 13, 2024
The Woman Who Defined the Great Depression
John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.
by
Scott Bradfield
via
The New Republic
on
November 12, 2024
A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again
How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the Klan’s rule in Indiana.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
via
The New Yorker
on
November 9, 2024
The Abolitionist Titan You’ve Never Heard Of
John Rankin, minister and fierce abolitionist, is a man worth remembering in our moment.
by
Isaac Willour
via
Law & Liberty
on
November 8, 2024
A Prudent First Amendment
Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.
by
David Lewis Schaefer
via
Law & Liberty
on
November 7, 2024
The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost
From white supremacists to black activists, readers have sought moral legitimacy in Milton’s epic poem.
by
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
via
New Statesman
on
November 7, 2024
The Amazing, Disappearing Johnny Carson
Carson pioneered a new style of late-night hosting—relaxed, improvisatory, risk-averse, and inscrutable.
by
Isaac Butler
via
The New Yorker
on
November 6, 2024
A History of Black Power We Need and Deserve
A history that is as tactical as it is analytical, as global as it is local, and as based in love as it is in politics.
by
Say Burgin
via
Monthly Review
on
November 1, 2024
How the Irish Became Everything
Two new books explore the messy complexities of immigration—from the era of Lincoln to Irish New York.
by
Tom Deignan
via
Commonweal
on
November 1, 2024
Friend of the Family
Jean Strouse explores the relationship between the Anglo-Jewish Wertheimers and John Singer Sargent, who painted twelve portraits of them.
by
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 31, 2024
The Crime of Human Movement
Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.
by
Coco Fusco
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 31, 2024
The Horrors of Hepatitis Research
The abusive experiments on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School were only one part of a much larger unethical research program.
by
Carl Elliott
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 31, 2024
God’s Directive
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims.
by
Rozina Ali
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 31, 2024
Did the Witch Trials Ever Truly Come to an End?
Marion Gibson’s research rigorously traces the legal and human aspects of the trials through today.
by
AX Mina
via
Hyperallergic
on
October 30, 2024
The Parenting Panic
Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.
by
Aaron Bady
via
Boston Review
on
October 30, 2024
Searching for the Elusive Man Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?
by
Scott Wasserman Stern
via
The New Republic
on
October 24, 2024
In the 1970s, the Left Put a Good Crisis to Waste
In "Counterrevolution," Melinda Cooper reads the 1970s economic crisis as an elite revolt rather than proof of the New Deal order’s unsustainability.
by
Scott Aquanno
,
Stephen Maher
via
Jacobin
on
October 24, 2024
A Sudden, Revealing Searchlight
On Jean Strouse and the art of biography.
by
Ruth Franklin
via
Harper’s
on
October 23, 2024
Toward a Christian Postliberal Left
A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.
by
Eugene McCarraher
via
Commonweal
on
October 22, 2024
Whose Ronald Reagan?
Fighting over the legacy of a conservative hero in the era of Trump.
by
Susan B. Glasser
via
Foreign Affairs
on
October 22, 2024
Drink Like a Founding Father
Make one of President George Washington's favorite cocktails.
by
Diana Hubbell
via
Atlas Obscura
on
October 21, 2024
The Reactionary Bind
In assessing the rise of the global anti-democracy movement, the United States must look inward as well as outward.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
Democracy Journal
on
October 21, 2024
American Horror Stories
It just might be the great American art form. You can thank the residents of Salem for that.
by
Laura J. Miller
via
Slate
on
October 19, 2024
The Forgotten War that Made America
The overlooked Creek War set the tone for America to come.
by
Sean Durns
via
The American Conservative
on
October 17, 2024
Ralph Ellison’s Alchemical Camera
The novelist's aestheticizing impulse contrasts with the relentless seriousness of his observations and critiques of American society.
by
Jed Perl
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 17, 2024
Bookselling Out
“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.
by
Dan Sinykin
via
The Baffler
on
October 16, 2024
The Consultants Who Lost Democrats the Working Class
The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.
by
Ben Metzner
via
The New Republic
on
October 15, 2024
A Fundamentally Anti-Democratic Tradition: Zack Beauchamp's "The Reactionary Spirit"
Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.
by
Matthew McManus
via
Liberal Currents
on
October 14, 2024
The Woman Who Would Be Steinbeck
John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today?
by
Mark Athitakis
via
The Atlantic
on
October 10, 2024
Eroticize the Hood
A new book revamps Newark's reputation as unsexy, violent, destitute, defiantly declaring it “a place of desire, love, eroticism, community, and resistance.”
by
José Sanchez
via
n+1
on
October 8, 2024
How John Lewis Put a Legacy of Heroism to Use
As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.
by
Kelefa Sanneh
via
The New Yorker
on
October 7, 2024
The Supreme Court’s Originalists Are Fundamentally Wrong About History
The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?
by
Andrew Lanham
via
The New Republic
on
October 7, 2024
The Historical Seeds of Horror in "American Scary"
Jeremy Dauber's new book explores the themes and origins of the American horror genre.
by
Gianni Washington
via
Chicago Review Of Books
on
October 7, 2024
A Not-So-Hostile Takeover
Long before the rise of Trump, the American conservative mainstream enjoyed a complex partnership with the Far Right.
by
Gillis J. Harp
via
Commonweal
on
October 4, 2024
American Mythology
Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology?
by
Tom Zoellner
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
October 4, 2024
American Feudalism
A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”
by
Paul Crider
via
Liberal Currents
on
October 2, 2024
The Scopes Trial and the Two Visions of US Democracy
A new history revisits “the Trial of the Century” and its legacy in contemporary politics.
by
Michael Kazin
via
The Nation
on
September 30, 2024
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