A Disaster 100 Years in the Making
“I ain’t proud to be American no more,” Dean Blanchard, a shrimp distributor, told a reporter in 2015.1 Ten years earlier, his business was nearly ruined...
Speak, Memory?
One of the mythic hero’s most important tasks is to travel to a strange new land and come back enlightened or bewildered. One of the quest’s...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933–2020
PAMELA KARLAN The last time I saw Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a year ago—in October 2019, when I argued Bostock v. Clayton County before the...
Chaos and Cathode Rays
On a freezing night in February 1967, the cellist Charlotte Moorman and the artist-composer Nam June Paik performed Paik’s Opera Sextronique for the first time at...
Self-Made Men
It opens like a fairy tale. A young sailor, strapping and uneducated, rescues a rich kid from a beating and is gratefully invited back to the...
Longfellow’s Gentle Phantoms
On December 17, 1877, Mark Twain delivered an after-dinner speech at a banquet of graybeards gathered in a Boston hotel to celebrate John Greenleaf Whittier’s seventieth...
The Body and the Border
In the summer of 1949, a platoon in the Sodom District Battalion of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) established an outpost at Nirim in the western...
‘Subtle, False and Treacherous’
Richard III was king of England for only twenty-six months (June 1483 to August 1485). Yet thanks in large part to Shakespeare’s vivid depiction of him...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for October 17, 2020
This edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy Get This Deal $1.99The Psychology of Time Travel by...
From Palestine to the World, the Militant Film of the PLO
The Palestinian militant film project emerged in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, hoping to win international sympathy and solidarity by showing Palestine as one...
