It was in 1947 that the poet W.H. Auden published his famous book-length poem, The Age of Anxiety, which a year later would win the Pulitzer Prize. After Nazism and a catastrophic world war, nuclear genocide in Japan, and the launch of the Cold War, it was no surprise that the term soon became a popular
Author: Mark T. Harris
[From the Archive]. This older article on right-wing media, just resurrected for my website, includes reference to the first Gulf War launched in 1990 by the first President Bush. Discussing the corrosive cultural impact of right-wing talk radio, the 2006 article is a reminder that the seeds for the present hate-filled, demagogic politics of the Trump
I first heard of the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano years ago from a Chicago associate, a medical editor for whom I had once worked. He was a generation ahead of me in age, a former monk with a taste for flea markets, literature, and theater. He actually wasn’t much interested in politics, beyond a general concern for human
The summer of 1969 is the family’s first back in the Chicago suburbs. To his dismay, the young man’s family has left lively and liberal Ann Arbor to return to the stodgy conservatism of Chicago’s western suburbs. He is 16 years old and entering his junior year of high school. He walks home from school
In this era of fire and fury, when a boorish racist president can declare himself a stable genius in response to a journalist’s exposé of life inside the White House, American political culture is on display in all its hideous and worsening vulgarity. Indeed, the publication of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump
