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November 19, 2024
MagazineMichael Kazin
Randy Newman’s Genius for Political Irony
Few singer-songwriters have such fun getting under listeners’ skin.
July 4, 2024
Sidney Blumenthal
If Joe Biden Were as Ruthless About Immunity as Donald Trump …
What might the current president do with monarchical immunity to act? Sorry, that’s not admissible.
February 19, 2021
Jo Livingstone
The Polite Rage of Shirley Hazzard
Her newly reissued masterpiece “The Transit of Venus” gestures at vast and intricate political problems.
July 1, 2020
Jo Livingstone
A Satire That Demolishes the Influencer Industry
Leigh Stein’s novel “Self Care” drowns wellness Instagrammers in their own moon juice.
December 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility
The pathologies that have plagued the left were all on display one October day in 2010.
August 20, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The New Campus Novel
Julie Schumacher's "The Shakespeare Requirement" is a playful, sharp satire of the horrors of modern academia.
August 10, 2018
Sarah Blackwood
Why Little Women Endures
A new book reveals the powerful frustrations and sharp wit that shaped Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel.
July 16, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Is America Insane?
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen finds humor, outrage, and offense in the United States under Trump.
March 29, 2018
Sophie Pinkham
The Provocative Brilliance of The Death of Stalin
Why is Armando Iannucci’s new film effectively banned in Russia?
August 25, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Mourning Diana Online
What it means for a dead princess to be immortalized in digital camp.
January 11, 2015
Omer Aziz
Editors Who Censor 'Charlie Hebdo' Cartoons Are Stereotyping All Muslims as Extremists
January 7, 2015
Elaine Teng
The Most Recent Target of Charlie Hebdo's Satire Wasn't Islam. It Was Islamophobia.
The French paper skewered all forms of dogmatic thinking
June 24, 2013
Noreen Malone
Anthony Weiner Is Just Trying To Have It All
How the mayoral candidate goes after women voters
May 10, 2013
Luke O'Neil
No More Fake News!
An earnest argument against satire
March 27, 1989
Henry Fairlie
A Modest Proposal (To Mandate That All Politician Be Eunuchs)
A satire for the ages
October 16, 1935
The New Republic Staff
Mark Twain Said It

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