Hector Figueroa, 1962–2019
obituaries
Posted inAmerica and the World
Mohamed Morsi: A Postscript
The deposed Egyptian president’s legacy is complicated, and his death cruel. He “always underestimated the animosity of the military,” says the former U.S. ambassador.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Last President of the Old Ruling Class
George H.W. Bush, 1924-2018
Posted inTAP
Richard Goodwin, 1931-2018
Richard Goodwin, who may have been the last surviving New Frontiersman, and who was actually a good deal better than that, died Sunday at 86. As a young man, Goodwin checked every meritocratic box there was to check, including valedictorian at Harvard Law, clerk to Felix Frankfurter, and congressional investigator who helped expose the rigged […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Remembering Judge Stephen Reinhardt
The legacy of the great liberal appellate judge, who died Thursday at 87
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Requiem for a Storm
The Israeli poet Haim Gouri, who died last week, made conflicted idealism into a 94-year-long work of art.
Posted inWorking in America
An Organizer’s Life
There’s a scene in last year’s documentary by Lilly Rivlin, Heather Booth: Changing the World, in which Heather and Paul Booth discuss how they met at an anti-war sit-in at the University of Chicago’s administration building in 1966. “The sit-in lasted several days and nights. We got to know each other very well,” Paul recalled. […]
