The New York Review of Books presents the fourth installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole. New York Review contributors Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Jonathan Mingle join O’Toole for a conversation on the damage a second Trump administration can bring to already meager efforts to curb global warming. You may […]
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In Hillbilly Elegy, his best-selling 2016 memoir of “a family and a culture in crisis,” J.D. Vance, now vice-president of the United States, gives an evocative account of the relationship between his hometown and the heroic age of American industrial capitalism.1 The beating heart of Middletown, Ohio, was its steel plant, then called Armco. Vance […]
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The New York Review of Books presents the fifth and final installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole. For our final event, O’Toole hosts Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for a conversation about the future of progressive politics during the second Trump administration. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
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For the third installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole, New York Review contributors Astra Taylor and Zephyr Teachout and AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO President Sara Nelson discuss what successful opposition looks like today. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
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In the second of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Francisco Cantú, Julia Preston, and Héctor Tobar for a panel on the fight for immigrant rights. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
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In the first of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Sherrilyn Ifill, Pamela Karlan, and Laurence H. Tribe for a conversation on corruption and the rule of law. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
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Donald Trump is reshaping relations between Europe and the US more dramatically than at any time since World War II.
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In the 2020 disaster movie Greenland, the hero John Garrity (played by Gerard Butler), his wife (Morena Baccarin), and their young son are in a truck driving north from the United States into Canada. We hear on the radio an announcement from NASA: A nine-mile-wide fragment larger than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs will […]
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Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.
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The New York Review of Books presents the fourth installment in a series of online events in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. New York Review contributors Fintan O’Toole, Pamela Karlan, and Mark Danner discuss the legal issues at stake during the upcoming presidential election. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
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