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It’s always hard writing your first piece of the year. But with the upcoming inauguration, Luigi Mangione, the ramifications of illegal immigration I see behind my home in New York, the safety of our public transportation system... I know that I am witnessing an avoidable decline. That our political expectations are embarrassingly low. And that we’... See more

Reggie James • Political Expectations

newsworthiness rarely brings destroyed White bodies to the front page of the newspaper.

Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)

The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance serves as a buffer to society’s recrudescent stupidity. Upholding this legacy seems a more vital role for a critic than operating as a tour guide of commercial entertainments. The survival of our democracy depends on the recovery of our critical thinking skills.

In the past, when I’ve made the case for cri... See more

Charles McNulty • In defense of criticism: A theater critic asks what good does it do in an upside-down world

Of course we're all victims of the biggest perpetrators of this uncaring era, as the Trump administration declares "Who Cares?" to vast swaths of the federal government, to public health, to immigrant families, to college students, to you, to me.

dansinker.com • The Who Cares Era

First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones

Emma Goldberg nytimes.com

Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?

theatlantic.com

Democrats’ erosion in California, where they won by 29.1 points in 2020 but are headed to “only” a 20.8-point win based on votes counted so far, cost them 0.9 points off their national popular vote margin — even though it didn’t hurt their Electoral College chances at all. Meanwhile, New York cost them 0.6 points, and New Jersey and Illinois 0.3 po... See more

Nate Silver • It's 2004 all over again

Goad’s analysis of race and class in America broke through to academia, in Penn State professor Shannon Sullivan’s superb 2014 book Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism. Sullivan, who is very left wing, takes a scholarly approach to Goad’s ideas and agrees with many of his conclusions.

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

The winners in Smart America have withdrawn from the national life of their fellow Americans. Christopher Lasch, writing in the early 1990s when this withdrawal was young, called it “the revolt of the elites.” Between meritocracy and democracy, it’s the first that dominates their waking hours, commands their unthinking devotion, and drives them, li