Reproducibility and the Zara Jacket

FOTUS expresses herself through her outerwear. The messages, though, are ambiguous. She uses a fashion language the rest of us … More

Reading the First Lady: FLOTUS and Her Sleeves

Slate's Christina Cauterucci reads Melania Trump's clothes, because that's all the meaning we can get out of her, for she … More

From Michael Chabon's open letter to "our fellow Jews, in the United States, in Israel, and around the world." The … More

Ian Volner laments how American culture has produced only one fascist with any real panache–Philip Johnson. [I]n our present political … More

In the days leading up to the election last November, many people vowed if Donald Trump was elected they … More

The 2016 election cast Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec's Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Data in an entirely … More

We've all seen the 2016 election results maps: isolated spots of blue surrounded by vast fields of red. If the … More

Richard [III], as Shakespeare conceived him, was inwardly tormented by insecurity and rage, the consequences of a miserable, unloved childhood … More

Watching Trump's stunningly dark acceptance speech last night, I got to wondering what Walter Benjamin would have thought of it. … More

David Brooks close reads Donald Trump's speeches in order to assess if the candidate is becoming unhinged. Trump’s verbal style … More