How a Propaganda Campaign Killed Our Trust in Science and Government
Market fundamentalism’s propaganda gave us climate destruction, a housing crisis, the opioid scourge, a lousy pandemic response...and, ironically, Trump.
By Jeannette Cooperman
Inside the Kingdom of Kicks
If someone you love dies, there will be nothing more tenderly, heartbreakingly intimate than their oldest pair of sneakers. Shoes that dashed them through rainstorms, won and lost games, bounced with eager impatience, knotted stubborn in airport security lines. They have been stretched and pounded into a shape no manufacturer ever envisioned. They smell of sweat and earth and freedom.
Entering Other People’s Churches
A Dickensian outing with the ghost of Easters past.
Rite of Spring
Even Earth spring cleans. And there is power in this dreaded ritual.
What Buckminster Fuller Would Tell Us
He wanted to “make the world work, for 100 percent of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.” Seems so quaint now.
Why Pamela Paul Annoyed NYTimes Readers
We are both White ladies who want everybody to be polite and nice so we can go back to reading our book.
The New Pandemic
Whoever thought a financial crisis would feel just like a pandemic?
The Vilified Elite…Poodle
Want to understand what tore this country apart? The fate of the poodle is your fable.
A Parlor Game for the Times: Whose Psyche Is Darker?
Would you rather be manipulated or punched in the gut?
Searching for a Loose Confidence
I do not want to live like this anymore, scripted and tight and rigid.
Dead Malls and Dreams
Malls sold us canned fantasy. It could have been so different.
House of Secrets
To new generations, the secrecy of the past is often baffling. A secret is a woman laced so tightly into her velvet gown that she cannot breathe or speak. We show up in jeans. Carl Jung called secrets “psychic poison”: they isolate the keeper of the secret, require lies, breed distrust, and become the unwanted inheritance of a generation bewildered by the need to keep them.