Times Literary Supplement (December 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Faithful unto Death’…
Category Archives: Magazines
The Nation Magazine – January 2025 Preview
The Nation Magazine (December 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Code Red’ – On election night, our screens were a sea of red, suggesting that the US was more conservative than ever. But sometimes maps can be deceiving…
The Dead Hand of the Democratic Consultant Class
Breaking the grip of grifters who refuse to learn or leave won’t be easy. But it is essential to effectively opposing the coming plutocracy.
The Difference That Matters Most Isn’t Between Left and Right
But between candidates who are defenders of the system and those who are anti-system. Democrats lost because they allowed Trump to be the only voice of antiestablishment rage.
Progressives Can’t Afford to Spend the Next 4 Years Just Playing Defense
Or reflexively denouncing every Trump policy. While we mustn’t underestimate the danger he poses to our democracy, when he says he wants to end war, the left should call his bluff.
The Atlantic Magazine – January 2025 Preview
The Atlantic Magazine (December 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Seamus Heaney, My Father, and Me’ by Catlin Flanagan…
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military
The U.S. failed to produce weapons and ammunition fast enough to supply Ukraine. Could it equip its own armed forces in the event of war?
Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All
The party’s debate about reinventing itself after the election has gotten more complicated.
Politics/Opinion: Jacobin Magazine – Winter 2025
Jacobin Magazine (December 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Why Bidenism Failed’….
Bye Bye Bidenism
“You and [Franklin] Roosevelt begin from two different starting points. But is there not a relation in ideas, a kinship of ideas, be-tween Moscow and Washington? In Washington I was struck by the same thing I see going on here; they are building offices, they are creating a number of state regula-tion bodies, they are organising a long-needed Civil Service.
Neoliberalism’s Hollow Promise of Freedom
Neoliberalism often presents itself as a victory for individual autonomy. In an interview, Grace Blakeley explains the hollowness of this claim — and why the Left needs to offer its own, better vision of human freedom.
UnitedHealth’s Unchecked Growth Has Caused Widespread Misery
Despite antitrust regulators’ efforts to rein it in, UnitedHealth Group has been growing to control ever more of the health care sector. The corporation’s expanding power has meant worse care, higher prices, and a mounting human toll.
Scientific American Magazine – January 2025
Scientific American (December 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Search for Planet Nine’….
We May Be on the Brink of Finding the Real Planet Nine
If there’s a hidden world in the solar system, a new telescope should find it
Engineering Lucid Dreams Could Improve Sleep and Defuse Nightmares
Great Apes Joke Around, Suggesting Humor Is Older Than Humans
National Geographic Magazine – January 2025
National Geographic (December 16, 2024): The latest issue features….
Finding The Endurance
On the hunt for Shackleton’s lost ship
The Ancient Art of Tea
A journey to the mountain forests of China
Saving New Zealand’s Birds
Inside one of the world’s boldest conservation plans
Secrets of Arctic Caves
Searching for climate clues in Greenland
The New Yorker Magazine – December 23, 2024 Issue
The New Yorker Magazine (December 16, 2024): Kate Beaton’s “A Murder Mystery” – Take a closer look at the cover of the annual Cartoons & Puzzles Issue.
Syria After Assad
The scramble is on to define the future of Syria, quickly, to avert a war even more divisive than the conflict that has riven the nation for thirteen years. By Robin Wright
The Secret History of Risotto
The dish is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent. By Anthony Lane
Brady Corbet’s Outsider American Epic
“The Brutalist,” the director’s nearly four-hour study of immigration, identity, and marriage, flowed from his own struggle to create art without compromise. “You really have to dare to suck to transcend,” he said. By Alexandra Schwartz
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion – January 2025
Siena splendor at the Met by Karen Wilkin
Life before death by Anthony Daniels
The scream of steam by Jeremy Black
Virgil Thompson at the Chelsea by David Dubal
The American Prospect Magazine – December 2024
The American Prospect (December 14, 2024): The latest issue features ‘What Now?’ – Election 2024 and its aftermath….
How Democrats Can Regain the Working Class
It’s time to go after the nation’s real elite—not the Republicans’ largely fictitious one. Harold Meyerson
The Housing Industry Never Recovered From the Great Recession
A decade of depression in construction led to a concentrated, sclerotic industry. Ryan Cooper
Make It Legal to Build
The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply. Robert Cruickshank
The New York Times Magazine – Dec. 8, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (December 14 2024): The 12.15.24 issue features ‘The Silence of Alice Munro’…
What Alice Munro Knew
The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent?
Opioids Ravaged a Kentucky Town. Then Rehab Became Its Business.
In Louisa, an unbearable social crisis has become the main source of economic opportunity.
Could This Tiny School Break Down the Wall Between Church and State?
Officials in Oklahoma are laying the groundwork to push Christianity into public schools.
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