‘Humankind’ author and historian Rutger Bregman discusses hope for a pro-social society amid simultaneous American and global crises
Books, Arts and Culture
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Gone With ‘Gone With the Wind’
Hollywood not only got the Civil War and Reconstruction wrong. It also screwed up the Western.
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The ERA and the Dynamic of Deafness
The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated less by Phyllis Schlafly than by an inward-looking failure to listen. Are we now in a moment when potential movement allies at last listen to one another?
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How Protest Graffiti Recontextualizes Public Art
Throughout the country, street art has forced people to confront and examine our troubling racial realities.
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One Part Humor, Two Parts Rage
A conversation with satirist Alexandra Petri on joking in the face of tragedy
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To Be Studied, or Pitied?
Two books try to understand the other America, and stumble along the way.
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From Virtue Signaling to Politics
Two new books try to put power back into civic engagement.
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Donald Trump and John Prine
If you want to understand why America’s rural poor are taken in by Trump, take a close listen to John Prine.
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Praise by Faint Damnation
In which the liberals’ favorite conservative blames America’s crisis more on decadent culture than decadent capitalism
