Bestowing a Legacy Better Than His Own

Elaine Margolin / Truthdig May 25, 2018 Michael Chabon's new essays about struggling to be the best father he can be are as enchanting, sad and intuitive as his extraordinary novels. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

We Need More Than a ‘Not Trump’ Strategy for Real Change

Paul Street / Truthdig Jan 24, 2018 A new book of essays by leading political analysts delves into the social and historical forces that produced our 45th presidency. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

‘The Broken Country’ Explores Cultural Trauma, Legacies of War

Paisley Rekdal / Truthdig Aug 26, 2017 Truthdig writer Paisley Rekdal's book-length essay will be released in September. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Instant Gratification Culture Is Killing Fine Writers

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 5, 2015 A sometimes acrid essay by an author and former creative writing professor delivers some tough love to people hoping to become published writers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Zachary Karabell on ‘Capitalism and the Jews’

BLANK Jun 11, 2010 Jerry Z Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, provides in his provocative new book a fresh look at a subject that, to say the least, has been both thoroughly misunderstood and a forbidden, even taboo, topic Muller's provocative new book provides a fresh look at a subject that has been both thoroughly misunderstood and a forbidden, even taboo, topic. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Cristina Nehring on the New Erotic Fundamentalism

BLANK Aug 21, 2009 Are Americans sacrificing the possibility of a more tolerant humanity for a suffocating guarantee of fidelity, a frigid prospect that seemingly unites the commissars of the politically correct left as much as it does the thought police of the puritanical right?Are Americans sacrificing the possibility of a more tolerant humanity for a suffocating guarantee of marital fidelity? Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Chalmers Johnson on the Cost of Empire

BLANK May 15, 2009 Author, scholar and Truthdig contributor Chalmers Johnson passed away Nov. 20. In his honor, we are reposting this 2009 book review, which, like much of Johnson's work, remains relevant to this day. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Tom Hayden Strikes Back

Tom Hayden / Truthdig Apr 30, 2008 Chris Hedges is wrong. The left hasn't lost its nerve, it has found a voice capable of rallying millions. Progressives shouldn't turn their noses up at that kind of movement just because it isn't perfect. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Troy Jollimore on Martin Amis’ ‘The Second Plane’

BLANK Apr 25, 2008 When the second plane hit the second skyscraper on 9/11, how many of us knew then just how radically our world would change? Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Cristina Nehring on What’s Wrong With the American Essay

Cristina Nehring / Truthdig Nov 30, 2007 One of our most trenchant critics takes a withering look at how contemporary essayists in a global world have gone increasingly, foolishly, local. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

‘War As We Saw It’ Authors Killed

Staff / Truthdig Sep 13, 2007 Two of the seven co-authors of "The War As We Saw It," perhaps the most compelling analysis of the Iraq war, died on Monday in a vehicle accident. Sgt. Omar Mora and Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, along with five other active duty soldiers, wrote in The New York Times that "[Iraqis] will soon realize that the best way to regain dignity is to call us what we are -- an army of occupation -- and force our withdrawal." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Olbermann Puts Rumsfeld to Shame

Staff / Truthdig Aug 31, 2006 Keith Olbermann delivered a masterful retort on Wednesday to Donald Rumsfeld's recent diatribe on fascism. With a commentary as apt as it was eloquent, Olbermann excoriated the defense secretary's very patriotism: "In what country was Mr. Rumsfeld raised? As a child, of whose heroism did he read? On what side of the battle for freedom did he dream one day to fight? With what country has he confused? the United States of America?" (Video & Transcript) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )