Staying Power
Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Will He, Won’t He
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“What would you do if you were in the President’s place? You would be inexorably pressured by the forces and the individuals that made you President, and by your own desire to be President in the first place; so you would wind up doing just what they all have done. It’s enough to stop any sane man from wanting to be President.” –William S. Burroughs
Read “When Did You Stop Wanting To Be President?”
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Andrew Cockburn asks: “Where’s the support for Democratic insurgents?”
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On abdication.
NATOkay
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Masha Gessen on Finland’s nerve-wracking reality before it joined NATO.
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On NATO quid pro quos…on a hot mic.
Read “Backstage at the NATO Summit”
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“There’s no hiding the fact anymore–NATO is becoming unhinged.”
Read “NATO: The Ailing Alliance” by Roger D. Masters
Hot Summer Nights, Mid-July...
Songs of the Summer
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Thomas Frank on the cyclical crises of authenticity in the music industry: “The inescapable subtext here was that pop music was in dire need of a future.”
Read “Pop Music in the Shadow of Irony”
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“That was the peculiar genius of the Beatles: their music was fashioned to fit the widest possible range of average-sized girls, boys, men, women, parents and children, aunts and uncles, squares and bohemians.”
Read “Letting Go of the Beatles” by James Marcus
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“The kids are buying a lot of records, but it certainly isn’t classical music.”
Read “Where the Classics Have Gone” by Harold C. Schonberg
In Memoriam: Shelley Duvall
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Jay Kirk on The Shining, Room 237, and the cult of Kubrick.