Stick the Landing
Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
“Weird People”
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Lewis H. Lapham’s examination of the Republican messaging machine: “How did a set of ideas both archaic and bizarre make its way into the center ring of the American political circus?”
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The art of persuasion, circa the Trump administration: seven writers brainstorm what it means to change one’s mind.
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RAND’s brand strategies, or, “The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation.”
William Calley, Convicted in My Lai Massacre, Dead at 80
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Seymour M. Hersh’s search for Calley: “I simply told my friend everything I knew about Calley and the charges against him. His response was not to deny the story but to warn me off it. ‘It’s just a mess,’ he said. ‘The kid was just crazy. I hear he took a machine gun and shot them all himself. Don’t write about this one. It would just be doing nobody any good.’”
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Hersh’s report on the atrocity and its aftermath, a year after he broke the story.
Read “My Lai 4” by Seymour M. Hersh
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Kissinger’s PR attempts following the publication of My Lai photographs.
Golden Girls
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On women’s gymnastics in the era of the Karolyis.
Read “The Neat Stuff” by James Wolcott
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“He had come to the conclusion that man was intended to be always right side up.”
Read “Non-hygienic Gymnastics” by James Buckham
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Alexandra Starr on the dark undercurrent of sexual abuse in elite sports.
In Memoriam: Edna O’Brien
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“Women are like rivers that flow in their own ineluctable way.”
Read “Joyce & Nora” by Edna O’Brien
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“Love, she thought, is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.”
Read “Long Distance” by Edna O’Brien