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How Hollywood Is Making Me a Union Man April 20, 2023
On May 1, the current contract between the Writers Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association expires, which means that, about a week after, people will start yelling at one another.The existing deal between the writers—the group of people i...
Moms on the Warpath April 07, 2023
merican mothers have a history of political activism. This is hardly a golden age of maternal activism, mainly visible in the relentless television-commercial-monitoring of One Million Moms, or in Portland’s “Wall of Moms,” which enjoyed a brief spot...
Everyone Deserves Grandeur April 07, 2023
A new performing arts center in New York’s Financial District demonstrates the problem with the city’s beautiful, expensive buildings.The only time I visited Milan, I emerged from a narrow street onto the Piazza del Duomo. As soon as I saw the ornate...
Inside Donald Glover’s New Creative Playground April 07, 2023
“Here…a good one,” Donald Glover says, sweetly, as he hands me a voluptuous avocado fresh from the tree. Gray hairs are perfectly sprinkled throughout his beard, and his coils are hiding beneath a weathered navy “Hawaii” cap that spent most of the da...
The Most Enigmatic Works in Art History April 03, 2023
In the last years of his life, German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt created a series of busts depicting a wide range of emotions, from petulance (see The Vexed Man) to amusement (An Intentional Wag) to shame (A Hypocrite and a Slanderer). Cast i...
The Past and Future of the American Strike March 21, 2019
I played a pretty big role in a labor fight noted in Erik Loomis's entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued new book, A History of America in Ten Strikes. Back in the day, I was a “comprehensive campaign” guy—the newish strategic paradigm t...
