Commentary


Universities’ Reliance on Contingent Faculty Endangers Free Speech on Campus

By Vanessa Guida, Kat Savino, and Shannon Azzato Stephens September 22, 2017

When universities rely heavily on contingent labor, they do more than reduce their own bottom lines.

EducationPolitics

Commentary

The Many Ivans

By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan September 14, 2017

Weiqing Yuan on being a Chinese street artist in Times Square

Arts & CultureWork & Money

Commentary

The Greater (Grater) Divide

By Roslyn Bernstein June 19, 2017

Considering recent contemporary art in Israel.

Arts & CultureMENA

Commentary

August Sander: The Intimacy of Time

By Alex Zafiris June 15, 2017

The singular power of portraiture's 20th century master.

Arts & Culture

Commentary

The Afterlife of the Party

By Chloe Lizotte June 5, 2017

What the late Glenn O'Brien can teach us about grieving online.

Arts & Culture

Commentary

A Tremendous Opportunity

By Joshua D. Graber June 2, 2017

On CEO activism in the Trump era.

PoliticsUSA

Commentary

Rebranding the Civic, From Private Prisons to Border Patrol

By Liza St. James May 16, 2017

Dispatches from the PEN World Voices Festival.

Lit WorldUSA

Commentary

The Lamentable Tragedy of Stephen K. Bannon

By Ida Lodemel Tvedt May 15, 2017

On Steve Bannon's adaptation of Shakespeare's bloodiest play.

PoliticsUSA

Commentary

Atonement and Sacrifice

By Alejandro Merlín, translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle April 18, 2017

On the discovery of mass graves, and the importance of naming the dead, from Greek mythology to the so-called War on Drugs.

ConflictHistoryMENA

Commentary

A Motion of Pleasure

By J. Mae Barizo March 29, 2017

"A mother’s milk, the first inherent ardor."

The Kiss

Commentary

Donald, in Passing

By Stewart L. Sinclair March 27, 2017

On talking to “the opposition” then and now

PoliticsUSA