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Ideas, Arts, and Culture (page 56)
March 7, 2021 5:30 am
The American Dream Is Sick But Not Dead
Americans have risen up, not against the meritocratic “rhetoric of rising,” but in defense of it.
March 6, 2021 5:30 am
Thomas Jefferson’s Not-So-Peculiar Mind
What the third president’s unorthodox cut-and-paste project can teach us about our longings and our politics.
March 3, 2021 5:30 am
1619, 1776, and Us
What the conflict over the NYT extravaganza and the much-mocked Trump commission report is really about.
February 25, 2021 5:30 am
QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear
What they can teach us about what to expect.
February 22, 2021 1:37 pm
George Washington and the Limits of Leadership
Sometimes, greatness resides not in what you do but in what you don’t do.
February 22, 2021 5:30 am
What Ails Our Politics?
Many things, but perhaps the state of the American family most of all.
February 6, 2021 5:30 am
The Shiny Shallowness of Today’s Country Music
Music Row puts out songs that ignore or even make light of the serious human problems that were once country…
February 6, 2021 5:30 am
It’s Not Your Fault Your TV Doesn’t Work Right
Increasingly complicated and complex home entertainment systems and standards demonstrate just why we should hope theaters never go away.
January 29, 2021 5:30 am
Signs of (Civic) Life
Robert Putnam revisits his ‘Bowling Alone’ thesis. But there are shifts and stories that the data can’t capture.
January 23, 2021 5:07 pm
Jackson’s Out, the Franklins Are In
How to understand Joe Biden’s choice of Oval Office art.
