MoMA’s Right On! Stream Brings Back the Sixties
The Last Poets’ eloquence outshines the ‘no justice, no peace’ drone of today.
Books, Arts & Manners
I’d Be Offended If You Gave Me a Copy of Strunk and White, Too
Don't quit over it, but don't rely on it, either.
Henry Kissinger and the Way of the World
A review of The Inevitability of Tragedy, by Barry Gewen.
What Liberty Meant to the Pilgrims
A review of They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty, by John G. Turner.
Belinda Raguesto Returns from Switzerland
No movie was ever made out of “the Development Process.” Films have always been made because someone with power bet on someone with a record.
Against the Current
At your most attuned, you flow along with the water, even as it bears you up.
The Pathology of American Communism
A review of The Romance of American Communism, by Vivian Gornick.
The King of Staten Island: Autobiography of an American Antifa Brat
Apatow panders to and pities a new type of privileged hipster sloth.
Examining Police Use of Force from Every Angle
A new book details the most important laws and policies.
What If We’re All Aliens?
A new low-budget sci-fi movie straight out of the 1950s asks deeper questions.