Politics

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Number One with a Bullet: On “A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations”
Paul Jordan charts the battles of “A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations.”
Paul JordanJul 28, 2019
Bauhaus100.com: Reflections on a National and Global Celebration
Georg Leidenberger considers the legacy of the Bauhaus school on its centenary.
Georg LeidenbergerJul 26, 2019
We Know Public Scholarship When We See It: On “America and Other Fictions”
Ben Railton reviews Ed Simon's recent essay collection, "America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion."
Ben RailtonJul 24, 2019
The Fire Last Time
What our financial saviors have failed to grasp about the Great Recession.
Jonathan KirshnerJul 22, 2019
Mining Nostalgia
An exhibit of apartheid-era photographs by David Goldblatt presents them without adequate context and loses a huge opportunity.
Alex LichtensteinJul 22, 2019
Minor Revolutionaries: A New Chapter in Queer Studies
Jack Halberstam on the next big chapter in queer theory.
Jack HalberstamJul 21, 2019
“My Life Is My Message”: Ramachandra Guha’s “Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914–1948”
Yugank Goyal reviews a massive new biography of Gandhi.
Yugank GoyalJul 21, 2019
The Inadequacies of Justice
Did Germany really pay for the Holocaust? Samuel Clowes Huneke reviews "Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice."
Samuel Clowes HunekeJul 21, 2019
American Death Cult: A Love Story
Reading Senator Tom Cotton's "Sacred Duty" against the grain, we can begin to come to terms with the erotics of American militarism.
Caleb SmithJul 20, 2019
- Politics
Find Our Mothers
Three recent texts recast the social roles of mothers and the psychology of motherhood.
Lori MarsoJul 18, 2019
To Better Understand Elizabeth Warren, Try Reading Her Husband
Elizabeth Warren’s husband, the Harvard Law Professor Bruce Mann, thus far in the shadows, illuminates his wife’s thinking through his writing.
John F. MullerJul 18, 2019
- Law
- Politics
Violence Against Women from Ancient Rome to Today: On Mithu Sanyal’s “Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo”
Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews Mithu Sanyal’s history-crossing account of violence against women in “Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo.”
Stephanie Sy-QuiaJul 17, 2019