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  • Blogs

    October 9, 2011

    Slavoj Žižek to Speak at Occupy Wall Street Today

    Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek will speak at the Occupy Wall Street protests today at noon. Last night, the Occupy Wall Street twitter account said, "Supposedly Zizek is coming to speak tomorrow at liberty plaza. Only a rumor though." Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein replied to their tweet wi ... More >>

  • Film

    August 24, 2011

    Drifter Sibling Paul Rudd Saves the Day in Our Idiot Brother

    Long-haired dreamer has predictably profound effect on his family

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2011

    Should We Feel Sorry For Rapture Believers?

    ​For a while now, everyone on the Internet has been firing off increasingly unoriginal smug jokes about the poor souls who actually believe that Jesus is coming to pick them up today. And this is happening for a number of reasons -- first of all, crazy wingnut extremists are often fodder for h ... More >>

  • Film

    April 20, 2011

    Surviving the Bomb in Children of Hiroshima

    ​For a while now, everyone on the Internet has been firing off increasingly unoriginal smug jokes about the poor souls who actually believe that Jesus is coming to pick them up today. And this is happening for a number of reasons -- first of all, crazy wingnut extremists are often fodder for h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    The Daily Ditching iPad-Only For Android App ASAP; TBD.com Dismantled, Doomed

    ​After three weeks of publication as the world's first-ever iPad newspaper, reports are trickling out that News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch's pet project, The Daily, will be migrating to a second platform, the Android tablet, in the second quarter of 2011. The news comes barely 20 issues since M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Alex Alvarez Escapes MediaBistro for Abrams Gulag of Mediaite

    ​Who among New York City's media set has never read a single MediaBistro mailer or blog? Nobody. Which is strange, because it's not like they break crazy news or anything! But it is a clearing house for two things: (1) Everything That Happens in Media, Especially in New York City and (2) Good Tale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2010

    Why The Social Network is All Good For Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg

    ​As is being reported across the entire internet, but initially by the New York Times, employees of the social network Facebook spent their Friday night spread out across two theaters in Mountain View, watching The Social Network, the movie about Facebook. The group, which gifted the local Cen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2010

    Who Smeared Dave Weigel?

    ​Yesterday afternoon, The Washington Post's conservative blogger, Dave Weigel, resigned. This was following the leak of some emails detailing his personal political views to a DC hack-gossip named Betsy Rothstein and bowtied blowhard Tucker Carlson's website, The Daily Caller. The emails were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Weiner Blasts McCaughey as a "Pyromaniac" in Health Care Debate

    Back in the 90s, Betsy McCaughey helped take down the Clinton health care plan, and has recently been doing her bit to take down Obamacare. Yesterday she debated Congressman Anthony Weiner, who was impolite, referring to her as a "pyromaniac in a straw man factory" and flat-out accusing her of lyin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Details On the 2009 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival

    Information remains scant on the super minimal page for the 2009 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, scheduled for August 8 at everybody's favorite BK venue the Old American Can Factory, a/k/a the Yard, a/k/a the old Issue Project Room space, a/k/a probably the only inhabitable lawn along all of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Benedikt v. Roiphe: Is Your Facebook Profile Enforcing the Patriarchy?

    Have you been reading Double X? It's Slate's recently-launched lady web site founded by three smart women, one whose bio proclaims that she "got her start in journalism at the New Republic writing contrarian essays." Last week Double X published Katie Roiphe's desperate cry for relevance, "Get Yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Clip Job: Wilcock's Idealism Deflated

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 8, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 20About Liberal ActionBy John WilcockSome weeks ago (The Village Square, January 25), I wrote a column suggesting that the active members of various pacifist, liberal, civil-rights groups cooperate jointly on a projec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Daily Flog: Barack Obama -- already a virtual star

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 8, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 20About Liberal ActionBy John WilcockSome weeks ago (The Village Square, January 25), I wrote a column suggesting that the active members of various pacifist, liberal, civil-rights groups cooperate jointly on a projec ... More >>

  • Theater

    October 1, 2008

    The English Channel

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 8, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 20About Liberal ActionBy John WilcockSome weeks ago (The Village Square, January 25), I wrote a column suggesting that the active members of various pacifist, liberal, civil-rights groups cooperate jointly on a projec ... More >>

  • Film

    August 19, 2008

    Manny Farber 1917-2008

    Remembering the painter, professor, and underground model for scores of American film critics

  • Film

    August 12, 2008

    Manny Farber 1917-2008

    Remembering the painter, professor, and underground model for scores of American film critics

  • Books

    July 29, 2008

    James Wood Ain't Afraid of Lit's Favorite Sons

    Updike might not enjoy this

  • Books

    November 6, 2007

    True Crit

    In two new compact volumes, Edmund Wilson still looms large

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2007

    Rudy Recants One 9/11 lie -- Five More To Go

    In two new compact volumes, Edmund Wilson still looms large

  • Theater

    March 13, 2007

    Comforter Zone

    Mattress springs eternal: 50 years of who beds whom, from Tea and Sympathy to Tim Miller

  • Film

    February 6, 2007

    Spy Vs. Spy

    After dissecting the boy fabulist, Billy Ray moves on to bigger kill: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen

  • News

    September 27, 2005

    Hammer Slammer Ding-Dong

    Merry Christmas! There is a G-D! And other reactions to the Tom DeLay criminal indictment

  • Books

    August 30, 2005

    Show Me the Bunny

    Appetite for instruction: the hungry mind of Edmund Wilson

  • News

    September 21, 2004

    Bush and the Press in the Age of Chaos

    The media must get tougher—even on itself

  • Books

    September 21, 2004

    Swamp Things

    Voter beware: Three books revisit the 2000 election debacle

  • Art

    July 27, 2004

    Reader, Heal Thyself!

    In a mini-religious revival, lit profs eschew cool, return to a humanist criticism

  • Art

    March 23, 2004

    The Urge to Purge

    Television's many cleaning experts poke their noses into other people's beloved trash

  • News

    February 24, 2004

    The Nader Interview

    Stop Building 'an American Sparta'

  • Columns

    October 28, 2003

    NY Mirror

    Stop Building 'an American Sparta'

  • News

    June 10, 2003

    The News No One Dares to Cover

    Stop Building 'an American Sparta'

  • NYC Life

    April 15, 2003

    Flaming Youth

    Flappers and Feminism at the Museum of the City of New York

  • News

    March 11, 2003

    Red Alert for Bill of Rights!

    Justice Department vs. Democracy

  • News

    November 26, 2002

    Resistance Rising!

    True Patriots Networking

  • News

    April 16, 2002

    'Sun' Rise, 'Sun' Set

    Conservative Paper Sings to the Masses

  • Specials

    January 8, 2002

    Letters

    Conservative Paper Sings to the Masses

  • News

    June 19, 2001

    The Real Andrew Sullivan Scandal

    His Private Life Is None of Our Business. His Public Life Certainly Is.

  • Dance

    April 24, 2001

    A Dance Critic's Lament

    His Private Life Is None of Our Business. His Public Life Certainly Is.

  • News

    April 17, 2001

    Yellow Peril

    Taiwan Fears What China Learned

  • Specials

    November 21, 2000

    Letters

    Taiwan Fears What China Learned

  • News

    July 4, 2000

    The Kinsley Report

    'Slate' Gets Self-Critical

  • Books

    March 14, 2000

    Noblesse Oblige

    'Slate' Gets Self-Critical

  • News

    June 8, 1999

    Human Shields For Clinton

    Interventionist Liberals Sanction a Jingoistic War

  • News

    February 16, 1999

    Tough Love

    Interventionist Liberals Sanction a Jingoistic War

  • News

    February 9, 1999

    Libel Bible

    Interventionist Liberals Sanction a Jingoistic War

  • NYC Life

    January 19, 1999

    Boobism and Cubism

    The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit

  • News

    December 22, 1998

    Hypocritical Oafs

    The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit

  • News

    June 2, 1998

    Bloody Sunday Times

    The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit

  • News

    January 6, 1998

    20 Questions

    The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit

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