IT: Chapter Two and the Great American Tradition of Selling Native Spirituality
Colonizers once tried to erase indigenous culture. Now they exploit it.
Culture
The Water Wars Are Here
In a warming world, fights over water usage have become ideological battles.
The Remaking of Susan Sontag
The great tension in Sontag’s life lay in her enduring desire for reinvention.
Fashion Week’s Labor Problem Is Our Labor Problem
The modeling industry has long exploited and abused vulnerable young women. Will they be welcomed in a revived worker movement?
What Christine Blasey Ford Said
"She Said," a chronicle of the #MeToo era by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, reveals the power of women who, together, refused to stay silent.
The Mysteriously Enduring Appeal of Friends
Twenty-five years after the show first aired, its popularity remains as strong—and confounding—as ever.
How Succession Skewers the Rich
The HBO show is a study in the corrosive nature of extreme wealth.
The Fall of the Meritocracy
Ultra-educated, highly paid, overworked elites are not partners in the struggle to reform an unequal system.
Is Joker Just a Movie?
Joaquin Phoenix’s villain is fictional, but he has a life of his own.
Right Brain
The conservative commentariat’s love affair with nootropics
Cold Case Hammarskjöld’s Artful Paranoia
How do you investigate a vast international intrigue in a culture that is overloaded with conspiracy theories?
Téa Obreht Considers the Camel
Her new novel "Inland" is a rollicking, deeply empathetic adventure set in Arizona in the late nineteenth century.
Crazy Sad Asians
Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" pushes back on the assimilationist myths of Asian American entertainment.
Vasily Grossman’s Lost Epic
Why was his World War II novel "Stalingrad" shunned by publishers for so long?
Kirsten Dunst’s All-American Con Artist
“On Becoming a God in Central Florida” brilliantly depicts an economy based on scams.
The Integration Success Stories
School segregation is on the rise. Can decades of data on thriving, integrated schools show the way forward?
Jawline Explores the Teenage Dream of Social Media
A new documentary charts the rise and fall of a would-be internet star.
Rudyard Kipling, American Imperialist
What the author of "If—" learned about empire from the United States
Who Gets to Speak Freely?
A new book takes the concerns of campus activists seriously.
Trump’s Tax on the National Psyche
The corruption and incompetence of this administration has led to a grotesque theft of Americans’ precious time and energy.
