Rough Men Standing Ready: On Mark Moyar’s History of US Special Ops
Henrik Bering vets “Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces” by Mark Moyar....
Pointing at the Wrong Villain: Cass Sunstein and Echo Chambers
David Weinberger on the problems of Cass R. Sunstein's "#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media."...
Reverse Robin Hood: The Historical Scam of Global Development
When a world system is based on the creation of scarcity, it is the meek that inherit that scarcity....
Pulling the Fire Alarm: The “L. A. Times” Editorial Board Versus the Bully-in-Chief
The “L. A. Times” editorial board indicts the 45th president....
Has Society Reached Peak Globalization? On “Grave New World”
Does the retreat from globalization also mean the withering of democracy? A new book worries so, says our reviewer....
From the Sun City of Dreams to the City of Angels: A Conversation with Belarusian Artist and Author Artur Klinau
Sasha Razor interviews the Belarusian artist and author Artur Klinau....
Is Cultural Appropriation Ever Appropriate?
Arthur Krystal on cultural appropriation....
Privatizing the Putin Presidency
The Celluloid Liberation Front on Oliver Stone's "The Putin Interviews" and how it feeds the myth of Vladimir Putin....
A Test of American Traditions: Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny”
Darryl Holter appreciates the lessons of “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder....
The Judgment of Rebecca West
James Thomas Snyder celebrates Rebecca West’s classic “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.”...
Cottage Industry: On “Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture”
In "Dead Pledges," Annie McClanahan uncovers how cultural production after 2008 registers a new crisis subjectivity in the wake of the mortgage meltdown....
Who Does He Favor?
Rachel Masilamani offers a graphic portrait revisiting the 2016 presidential campaign. Part of the July 2017 Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival....
