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...
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 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...
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...
The New Republic is moving back to Washington D.C. with Tomasky as its new editor. Here is Katie Robertson at The New York Times: The New Republic named a new editor on Thursday and announced that it was moving back...
I just learned this. Lehmann comes to The New Republic from his previous post as editor at The Baffler.  He is a former graduate student of Christopher Lasch and the author of  The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American...
Last week, Rutgers University historian David Greenberg chided his fellow Democrats for “taking the low road” in their opposition to Donald Trump and failing to practice civility. Here is a taste of his piece at Politico: Trump and his followers...
I recently finished reading Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity,and the Unmaking of the American Dream. I have been a fan of Lehmann’s writing for some time now. A former graduate student in history at the University of Rochester where he...
