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Eric Alterman’s List of the Best Stuff of 2022
The year in movies, books, music, and art
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Raised Voices, Raised Fists
Black athletes are uplifted for their talent but denigrated for speaking out. Still some are compelled to bear that burden.
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Nonviolence From a Military Angle
A new history of the civil rights movement gets a lot right but falls short in trying to reframe the story.
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Cyborgs on the Highways
A new book details the extreme forms of surveillance imposed on long-haul truckers, robbing them of their power.
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Brothers From Another Planet
Kanye West, Herschel Walker seem pleased with the Pandora’s box of horrors they’ve opened. But when mental health comes into play, this game becomes far more insidious.
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The Corruption of the Legal Profession
A new book shows how corporate law firms bear great responsibility for the degradation of the rule of law.
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Altercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
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Altercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.
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Why Meta’s Virtual Worlds Are Failing
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg just doesn’t have that understanding of what people want anymore.