Enemies of Progress
Sometime in late 1983 or very early 1984, I traveled to Ouagadougou, the capital of a West African country then called Upper Volta, to get a...
Magic Mountains
As you finish one of these stories you might have the sensation that you’ve awakened abruptly in unfamiliar territory, far afield from where you thought you...
From the Local to the Global
Neither of these titles includes the word “globalization” or even “global,” though the knitting together of the world is in fact the subject of both of...
New York After Cuomo
The word “moderate” may not apply to Andrew Cuomo’s intemperate personality, ham-fisted confidence, and occasional displays of megalomania, but a moderate Democrat par excellence is what...
Halfway to the Right
To the Editors: Linda Greenhouse generously calls my book Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty?: The Unnecessary Conflict “a novel and useful contribution to discourse on LGBTQ...
‘Such a Lovely Turmoil’
“American history is haunted by nightbirds in the nineteenth century,” Lewis Mumford wrote in The Brown Decades, his landmark 1931 study of Gilded Age culture. Chief...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 16, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman Get This Deal $2.99...
Occupy Memory
For the past twelve years, I have lived in New York’s Financial District. When I first moved in, during the crash of 2008, I listened for...
UK Police Shut Down Pirate IPTV Network With “Hundreds of Thousands” of Customers
With pirate IPTV services providing access to thousands of TV channels at a cheap price, the Federation Against Copyright Theft is continuing its quest to disrupt...
