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Chris Lehmann

Chris Lehmann remembers Barbara Ehrenreich

John Fea   |  September 7, 2022

We lost a great cultural critic and writer last week. I have benefited immensely over the years from Barbara Ehrenreich‘s work on social class in America. She is well-known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By […]

Annette Gordon-Reed on race in America

John Fea   |  August 3, 2022

Chris Lehmann interviews the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Forum. Here is a taste: Chris Lehmann: In your recent book, On Juneteenth, you wrote very powerfully about the kind of stories that need to be told with regard to your experience growing […]

The New Republic gives Eric Metaxas a platform

John Fea   |  April 5, 2021

The magazine is hosting a “conversation” between court evangelical Eric Metaxas and conservative writer Matt Labash titled, “An Epic Debate on Trump and True Evangelicalism.” The whole thing is pretty disgusting. Here is a taste of Metaxas’s side of the […]

What is going on at *The New Republic*?

John Fea   |  April 2, 2021

Not everyone on the magazine’s staff is happy about the arrival of new editor Michael Tomasky. They seem even more upset about The New Republic‘s decision to move its office from New York to Washington D.C. Now it looks like […]