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“A TARANTINO MOVIE YET TO BE MADE” “Frightening to read… [and] compelling, not least in the way it illustrates how the law of unintended consequences in covert action can work with an almost delirious vengeance.”—ADAM GOPNIK, The New Yorker “IMAGINE HAVING A CUP OF COFFEE WITH JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG” “Chatting about law, the Supreme Court, marriage, family, music, wins and losses. If that seems unlikely to happen, [this book] is the best possible substitute.”—LINDA GREENHOUSE, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Supreme Court correspondent of The New York Times “THIS BOOK IS A REVELATION.” “As fascinating as it is disturbing. You may think you know who Clarence Thomas is, but you don’t know the half of it.”—JACK M. BALKIN, author of Living Originalism “A MASSIVELY IMPRESSIVE WORK” “As enjoyable as it is…
Why We Fight War with Iran, writes Kevin Baker, would “make our war in Vietnam look like a walk in the park” [“The Deep State of Dementia,” Easy Chair, September]. But the grave scenario of such a conflict is increasingly probable, and it should be condemned at every opportunity. The media’s ongoing failure to interrogate the Trump Administration’s claims of Iranian aggression—to say nothing of their failure to situate these claims in the context of the administration’s own aggression toward Iran—only brings us closer to the brink. Baker offers the Gulf of Tonkin as the most obvious precedent for our recent confrontations with Iran. It’s true that Kennedy, McNamara, and their “flexible response” strategy created an ideal environment for that administration and its allies to play a more direct role…
“Valuable and eloquently hopeful.”—BOOKLIST “A passionate, lucid, and necessary memoir.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) “If progressives organize our money as well as our people and our ideas, we can build the muscle to make profound and lasting change.”—Felicia Wong, president and CEO, Roosevelt Institute “Powerful, urgent, and timely.”—Robert B. Reich “Important reading for our current time.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) “A treasure for our time.”—Judith Herman, author of TRAUMA AND RECOVERY “The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history.”—Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans www.thenewpress.com…
This past spring and summer, political correctness—perhaps inevitably—took a full turn and became a campaign to erase the worst things that dead white men have done in our history. This latest twist in our culture wars was set off not by Republicans or Proud Boys but by the San Francisco school board, social justice warriors all, who managed to convince themselves that the past was so terrible we dare not even look at it. The cause of the brouhaha was Victor Arnautoff’s 1936 Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) murals at San Francisco’s George Washington High School. Arnautoff was just the sort of artist you’d expect a San Francisco school board to love, an immigrant White Russian turned Red. A cavalryman in the tsar’s army, he made a remarkable hegira to California…
Portion of Americans who wouldn’t be “at all surprised” if the genocide of a religious group occurred in the United States: 1/3 Who believe that society should be “burned to the ground” : 1/10 Rank of Brazil among countries with the highest amount of annual forest depletion : 2 Rank of Russia : 1 Number of species classified as threatened or endangered under Republican administrations since 1993 : 77 Under Democratic administrations : 915 Estimated number of Americans who were displaced by natural disasters last year : 1,200,000 Factor by which a French person is more likely than an American to believe that vaccines are unsafe : 3 Number of European countries that the W.H.O. no longer considers to have eradicated measles as of this year : 4 Percentage of…
FALL 2019 A Forest of Symbols ANDREI POP “Vibrant and lucid … a superb account of symbolism in art, ideas, and culture in the nineteenth century. Pop’s history of art is grounded in a deep engagement with philosophical and literary reflections on the symbol.” —JAŚ ELSNER NEW IN PAPERBACK Forensic Architecture EYAL WEIZMAN “A new mapping of the connections between climate change, drought, drones, and armed conflict … powerful analytic tools that will be indispensable to the construction of a new human rights framework.” —NAOMI KLEIN Pornotopia PAUL PRECIADO “Linking masculinity to domesticity, Playboy Bunnies to Barbies, and pornography to new orders of the political … Preciado describes the emergence of a new spatialization of sex … Breathtaking!” —JACK HALBERSTAN RECENTLY PUBLISHED Into the White CHRISTOPHER HEUER Bob Dylan’s Poetics…
