September 19, 2019
Tech-Master Disaster: Part Two
September 12, 2019
Tech-Master Disaster: Part One
The late Jeffrey Epstein stands for at least three levels of mystery: the man himself, a boastful sex offender, convicted of preying on under-age women;...| More
September 5, 2019
Pick Your Populism
Mark Blyth is that noisy wise-guy on speed in our portable Glasgow pub, and he’s locating our anxieties about a world at sea. Where we’re...| More
September 4, 2019
Toni Morrison
We’ve been reflecting on Toni Morrison and her legacy, and so we’re thinking of Chris’s interview with her back on The Connection. Here from our...| More
August 22, 2019
Tom Reney’s Discs for a Desert Island
The jazz DJ Tom Reney has been telling people for 40 years about the true American art form. This hour he’s telling people about himself...| More
August 15, 2019
Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!
Herman Melville, at his 200th birthday, is the American Shakespeare if only for his epic prose poem Moby Dick, or The Whale. That’s Maximum Melville; we’re...| More
August 8, 2019
Tarantino’s 9th
Spoiler alert! (Really.) The big movie to reckon with this summer may be as much about the mood of 2019 as about the Helter-Skelter 1960s....| More
August 1, 2019
A Politics of Love
It’s been Marianne Williamson’s week in the presidential campaign, by the new metrics of Tweets (running less and less snarky), and Google searches asking who is...| More
July 25, 2019
Fuhgedaboutit
“You must remember this,” the songwriter said, but is it ever that simple? Same for all the admonitions: never to forget. Really, never? Lewis Hyde...| More
July 18, 2019
Middlemarch at the Beach
Middlemarch, a novel by the woman who gave herself a man’s by-line, “George Eliot,” may be the most honored masterpiece you’ve been avoiding all your...| More
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