Andy Borowitz on Our Age of Ignorance

Andy Borowitz on Our Age of Ignorance

Not only are we living in a time where people are proud of their ignorance, argues the writer and comedian Andy Borowitz, but some of our most educated politicians are now playing down their intelligence as a strategy to get elected. Borowitz, the author of the long-running satirical column The Borowitz Report, examines this phenomenon in his new book, “Profiles of Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber.” “When Trump was elected, a lot of us supposedly knowledgeable people were taken by surprise,” he tells David Remnick. “But the more I researched the past fifty years, the more likely and plausible—and maybe even inevitable—his election was, because he actually had a great deal in common with his forebears.”

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Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics

Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics

In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett.  He wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who would “build a sturdy electoral bridge between the religious and ...

21 Kesä 202113min

Merrick Garland's Impossible Job

Merrick Garland's Impossible Job

Merrick Garland made his legal reputation as a temperate moderate dedicated to keeping politics out of the justice system. Yet in the past few years, he has found himself at the center of two of the m...

17 Kesä 202117min

A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention

A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention

Next week, the Southern Baptist Convention will hold its annual meeting. It’s the largest Protestant denomination in the country, and, as the group gathers to elect a new president, it is facing a cri...

14 Kesä 202115min

Naomi Osaka and the Rights of Professional Athletes

Naomi Osaka and the Rights of Professional Athletes

Last month, Naomi Osaka, the second-ranked women’s tennis player in the world, announced that she would not speak to the press during the French Open. The referee fined her fifteen thousand dollars, a...

11 Kesä 202120min

The Early Days of ACT-UP, and Its Lessons for Today’s Activists

The Early Days of ACT-UP, and Its Lessons for Today’s Activists

Sarah Schulman is a novelist and playwright as well as a well-known activist and documentarian. She was an early member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and, for twenty years, she and the filmm...

7 Kesä 202117min

Biden’s Plan to Reshape the American Economy

Biden’s Plan to Reshape the American Economy

A semblance of pre-pandemic life has resumed across the country, but the economic signs are mixed, even after the strong jobs report for May. Supply chains are bottlenecked, unemployment is just under...

4 Kesä 202119min

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