Last Tuesday was Election Day in America. This is a presidential year, so it got more attention. Like […]
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With the worst blizzard to strike Chicago in twenty years, I sat in the living room of a shared apartment at the University of Chicago watching the news. The news coverage sent chills deep down to my bones and my stomach was knotted.
Like so many things in American life, this momentous and catastrophic event should teach us a lot but has instead gone down the memory hole.
Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
We still can’t stop thinking about how excited Elaine Benes would be that JFK Jr. is coming back.
We offer reading recommendations amid the banality of the forever-Pandemic.
The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.
Stan Thangaraj on the ways that metaphors can muddy our understanding of history and power.