An insightful essay by Freddie DeBoer, my favorite Communist, on AOC’s disappointing (to him) failure to support the leftist ideas she associated herself with in the early months of her political career. Click here.
On Friday, I wrote an essay trying to make sense of the senseless killing of George Floyd. As part of that essay, I told three stories about my personal experience with racism and police brutality. One of…
“On the one hand, it’s amazing to think that the artists we love will never die. But on the other hand, it can start to feel like a scene from the movie Weekend at Bernie’s.” In this essay, Andrew Zucker talks…
First published in French in 1952, then in English translation in 1954, this is a page-turner about British POWs building a bridge for their Japanese captors in Burma in 1942. (The author – who later wrote…
A synopsis of the plot that I found on Shmoop.com crystalizes my initial impression of this tender, teenage novel: “Dying girl meets hot boy. Hot boy and dying girl fall in teenage love and go on adventures to…