Tanks for the Memories: A Historical Tribute to Trump’s ‘Salute to America’

‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System

A process of normalization, when a bad camp becomes much more dangerous, is not unusual. Today’s border camps are a crueler reflection of long-term policies.

June 21, 2019

‘Gone Like a Meteor’: Epitaph for the Lost Youth of the Biafran War

The Biafran War, otherwise known as the Nigerian Civil War, lasted from July 6, 1967, until January 15, 1970, during which time an entire generation was wrenched from the future. My uncle was part of that generation.

May 30, 2019

The Book of Little Bighorn

The warring life of the Northern Plains tribes that resisted white invasion in the 1860s is the subject of A Lakota War Book from the Little Bighorn: The Pictographic “Autobiography of Half Moon.”

November 26, 2013

Aalto Survives Geopolitics

Although Alvar Aalto first won worldwide attention in the early 1930s as a leading exponent of the International Style—a reductive form of modern architecture proposed as equally applicable anywhere on the planet—his more expressive, site-specific work from the mid-Thirties onward marked him as a regional designer in the best sense,…

February 26, 2010

Even the Emperor

Hans Holbein’s The Dance of Death, just published in a new edition by Penguin Classics, was intensely engaged with the problem of corruption in politics.

January 20, 2017

The Romantic Pugilist

February 27, 2003 issue