There are a variety of artistic images which are so ubiquitously reproduced, reimagined and reconstituted that they form a vernacular of artistic recognition among the droves of Americans who otherwise...

An early straw poll of liberal voters conducted by the progressive political action committee MoveOn in December showed a decisive front-runner in the 2020 Democratic presidential contest: “someone else.” A...

Why won’t President Trump shut up about China? What is a tariff? Are we in a trade war? In the light of the upcoming election, these questions carry a lot of weight. In order to answer them on the most...

I suppose an article about Forrest Gump does not seem particularly timely. Robert Zemeckis’ beloved movie, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, will reach the ripe old age of 25 in July. The film was...

Small-d democrats that we are, Americans are not often impressed by technocrats. One institution is a necessary exception — the Federal Reserve (the Fed), where coldly apolitical policymakers manage...

The Justice Department’s revelation of a widespread conspiracy to augment the college admissions of certain ultra-rich children sparked conversations about access to higher education. The numbers were...

The harangue from Trump supporters listing the laudable qualities of our celebrity president are myriad and borderline mystical. To wit: Trump is an outsider who cuts through the political pablum, speaking...

Sometimes, when I want to get my monthly fill of pretentious long-form magazine reading in, I’ll go to Harper’s Magazine website and peruse the recent articles. Generally, I expect to read longwinded...

As my loyal readers know, I love talking politics, but that gets boring sometimes. So let’s talk football. In the aftermath of Clemson kicking Alabama in the rear, I’ve had countless college football...

This week, one person deserves unequivocal thanks from all of us, no matter whether our politics align left, right or center: Special Counsel Robert Mueller. For nearly two years, as he doggedly investigated...

In a recent New York Times article entitled “What Happens When People and Companies Are Both Just Brands?” Amanda Hess points out that “brand, in fact, is such a ubiquitous organizing principle for...

The role of visual imagery in promulgating social conceptions of race has for centuries encoded racialized connotations in depictions of the body. The construction of whiteness and blackness in the U.S....