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Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement

Decades after its conclusion, the U.S. war in Vietnam remains an unsettled part of our collective memory. Members of the military, veterans, scholars, journalists, and artists continue to revisit and…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2327 words)

History Detected

Give kids original source material, teach them how to weigh evidence and defend their conclusions, and they'll shine in class—and as citizens. In the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ben…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2718 words)

Paint Bombs

In the summer of 2011, when David Graeber heard rumors of a mobilization against Wall Street, he was hopeful but wary. Graeber is an anthropologist by trade, and a radical by inclination, which means…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4188 words)

Schulz: Why I Despise The Great Gatsby

The best advice I ever got about reading came from the critic and scholar Louis Menand. Back in 2005, I spent six months in Boston and, for the fun of it, sat in on a lit seminar he was teaching at…
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2373 words)
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Richard Nixon, hero of the American Left

This article originally appeared on the L.A. Review of Books. Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the…
PUBLISHED: May 5, 2013
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5491 words)

Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer

I used to believe that a mammogram saved my life. I even wrote that in the pages of this magazine. It was 1996, and I had just turned 35 when my doctor sent me for an initial screening — a…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6533 words)

Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful

Today in the United States and the developed world, women are better off than ever before. But the blunt truth is that men still run the world... It is time for us to face the fact that our…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3764 words)

“Disability”

Had dinner the Thursday night before last with a group of disability scholars, educators, advocates, and writer and poet-activists with disabilities. Talk around the table touched on many things, but…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3541 words)

The damnation of St Christopher

Rex Features Christopher Hitchens, my colleague at Vanity Fair, was diagnosed with cancer in 2010. But even before his illness, and his death almost two years later, he was on his way to…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3632 words)
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