The Comics Section: Brunei Brutality and a Forgetful Base
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds beneath Our Feet
BY WILL HUNT SPIEGEL & GRAU, 2018 275 PP., $27.00 Underground is a strange little book, and not just because it reveres caves, catacombs, and sewers—the earth’s mantle below us. Will Hunt not only revels... Read More
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
BY JONATHAN METZL BASIC BOOKS, 2019 352 PP.; $32.00 Almost everyone will be familiar with the general thesis of Jonathan Metzl’s book, Dying of Whiteness: that non-rich whites vote against their material interests when they vote... Read More
Can American Capitalism Survive?
BY STEVEN PEARLSTEIN ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2018 205 PP.; $27.99 Steven Pearlstein’s Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor is as mildly unconventional... Read More
“Humanism with Horns”: Hail Satan? Film Review
The grand cosmic reversal featured in the documentary film Hail Satan?, directed by Penny Lane (Our Nixon, Nuts!), is at least as old as John Milton, whose Satan has appeared to readers and critics for centuries as... Read More
The Comics Section: Holy Firefighters & Republican Recycling
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The Comics Section: Priests at Risk and How to Succeed
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