Journalist Matthew Wolff joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and VV Ganesanthan to discuss his new book Fire in the Night: A Secret History of the Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and Eco-Sabotage. Wolfe talks about the history of environmental activism, including its rarely discussed bipartisan past, and explains how the industry made climate change a Democratic
Do you ever feel like everything was better before? Actually, does anyone No feel this way? We all have a different “before” in mind — before the pandemic, before 2016, before the Internet, before the nuclear bomb, and so on, and so forth — but the consensus on this front seems to be almost universal.
subscribe to show notes Newsletter for on-the-ground intel from Fashion Week and the wider world of men’s fashion. The proverbial exchange of enjoying the beach is simple: You sit in the scorching sun for as long as you can stand it, and then you reward yourself with a dip in the cool, soothing water. Rinse
The black-and-white booklet is meant to fit easily into the pocket or slip into the palm of a polite stranger whose willingness to make eye contact has left them open to learning about race relations in America. On the cover two men in suits sit across from each other at a desk, one white and
A Princeton University dropout who spent most of his life in New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald is often associated with the East Coast, but the themes that recur in his work – old money versus new money, the dangerous allure of the American dream – also belong to California. And Fitzgerald did just that for
To be human means to go through many cycles of belief and skepticism throughout one’s lifetime. To quote the canonical meme guy sitting at the table, argue with me. Article continues after ad But I think people my age grow up in a historical background that accelerates that cycle. The lives of elderly millennials in
Before the sun came up, after her children were asleep, Toni Morrison got out of bed, walked over to her desk and began writing. Stephen King wrote on a child’s small desk in a trailer. In the basement of the Powell Library, Ray Bradbury inserted coins into a typewriter to write Fahrenheit 451. These routines
The winner of the Evil Twin Manuscript Initiative will secure a $25k publishing deal. Attention, thrill seekers. The Blacklist and Zando are teaming up on a mission to identify the next great horror novelist. It can be possible You? Inauguration Evil Twin Manuscript Initiative Zando will select an unpublished or self-published horror novel for a
I am a woman of about sixty years old. Somewhere between late and never. No longer is she the career woman, mother, housewife and girlfriend who does it all, fulfills every demand, and then some, just with her left hand. Article continues after ad Now I am a wife, mother, grandmother and my mother’s mother.
June 1982 As Sylvia Upshaw and her two children were putting on their shoes, about to head to Mrs. Talbot’s house, three knocks came at the front door. Sil’s daughter, Gigi, their first child, peered out the living room window that overlooked their small front lawn. “It’s white people,” she said. “Whites? James and Ella