The Problem of Sex
Without radical change, disquiet finds other outlets. Dystopic visions have replaced Shulamith Firestone and Adrienne Rich’s utopian ones. In 1951, W. H. Auden awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award to a...
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On Anger and “Meaning It”
So apparently there’s a new documentary about Morton Downey Junoir out. People like to talk about how the great things they read when they were young stuck with them like nothing else but of course...
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My Brooklyn, Not Yours
Every time I go back to Brownsville it is as if I had never been away. From the moment I step off the train at Rockaway Avenue and smell the leak out of the men’s room, then the pickles from the stand...
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A Response to Nicholas Kristof
As one of those professors teaching four classes at a community college, I do wish I had more time for my (perfectly lucid if I may say so) writing, but I also have a crazy idea that teaching hundreds...
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Mad Men in a Mad World
Mad Men brilliantly shows the everyday cruelties of the old order, but insists that those who challenged them were fools. The new season of Mad Men is upon us. The official posters, with Don looking at...
View ArticleThe Intractability of Op-Ed Habits
The first paragraph of the New York Times‘s obituary for Vincent Harding, scholar and co-author of Martin Luther King’s brilliant and always-relevant anti-war speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” refers to that...
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