• Politics

    Authoritarianism

    The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul

    “In real-life Trump America, critical thought and political speech are shuttered in service of a belligerent agenda.”

     
    By Shana L. Redmond  April 4, 2025
    Fascism

    Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism

    By The Professors of Stockton University  April 2, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
    Radio

    On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever

    By Steve Oney  March 31, 2025
    Cities

    The Paradox of Prosperity: How Urban Renewal Pushes Workers to the Periphery

    By Brian Goldstone  March 31, 2025
    The Hub

    These are the things that are getting us through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  March 28, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Fascism

    So You Want to Flee to Canada: Revisiting a Classic Guide to Leaving America

    By James Folta  March 28, 2025
    Retellings

    Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

    By Ilan Stavans  March 27, 2025
    Refugees

    Beyond the Headlines: Capturing the Human Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis

    By Jeanne Carstensen  March 26, 2025
    News and Culture

    Republicans in Congress Are Going After a Free and Independent Media

    The “Anti-American Airwaves” Hearing Was a Very Dangerous Circus

    By Aron Solomon  April 3, 2025
    The Hub

    Eight print(!) magazines that should be on your radar.

    By Brittany Allen  March 25, 2025
    Writing Trauma

    Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era

    By Jamie Hood  March 25, 2025
    Feminism

    Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

    By Roxane Gay  March 25, 2025
    Publishing

    The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump

    Part Three of Josh Cook’s Series on the Challenges We Face

    By Josh Cook  March 21, 2025
    Environmentalism

    A Toxic Business: On America’s Practice of Shipping Its Trash to the Global South

    By Alexander Clapp  March 21, 2025
    Labor

    How Service Workers Can Lead the Fight Against the Ruling Billionaire Class

    By Jodi Dean  March 21, 2025
    MAGA

    Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 20, 2025
    The Hub

    Trump is trying to destroy libraries.

    By James Folta  March 18, 2025
    Palestinian Rights

    A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil

    By Joseph Howley  March 18, 2025
    The Hub

    Schumer “postponing” his book tour tells me he still doesn’t get the message.

    By James Folta  March 17, 2025
    Israel

    The Former Head of Human Rights Watch on the Challenges of Reporting on the Abuses of Israel’s Government

    By Kenneth Roth  March 17, 2025
    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities

    James A. Warren on the Origins and Lasting Impact of a Generation-Defining Cold War Conflict

    By James A. Warren  March 14, 2025
    Creative Nonfiction

    Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

    By Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold  March 13, 2025
    Dystopias

    Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

    By Laila Lalami  March 13, 2025
    Cults

    Leah Sottile on Amy Carlson, aka Mother God, and the Creation of a New Age Cult

    By Leah Sottile  March 26, 2025
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