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HOW HE UNLEASHED the WORST POLITICAL TEAM in HISTORY New from COLUMBIA University Press OCTOBER 2016 THE POPULIST REVOLT UTOPIAN KINK REFUGEES IN BOISE TRUMP’S LAP DOGS HOW HE UNLEASHED THE WORST POLITICAL TEAM IN HISTORY New from COLUMBIA UnIvERsIty PREss A History of Virility Reductionism in Art ALAIN CORBIN, JEAN- and Brain Science JACQUES COURTINE, Bridging the Two Cultures GEORGES VIGARELLO, ERIC R. KANDEL EDS. “[A] fascinating survey of mind Translated by Keith Cohen science and modern art. “A sweeping history of Kandel presents concepts to masculinity in the tradition of ponder that may open new Ariès and Duby’s A History of avenues of art making and Private Life.” neuroscientific endeavor.” —Lewis Seifert, Brown —Publishers Weekly University Exhaustion A Brief History of A History Entrepreneurship ANNA KATHARINA The Pioneers, Profiteers, and SCHAFFNER Racketeers Who Shaped Our “When Exhaustion does World bring theory and experience JOE CARLEN together, it becomes “This enjoyable book is full engrossing—which makes it all of great stories and practical the more regrettable that for so ideas.” many centuries, our exhausted ancestors remained silent.” —Brian Tracy, author of The Way to Wealth —New Republic Deciding Data Love What’s True The Seduction and Betrayal of The Rise of Political Digital Technologies Fact-Checking ROBERTO SIMANOWSKI in American Journalism Translated by Brigitte Pichon, Dorian LUCAS GRAVES Rudnytsky, and John Cayley “Brilliant . an ironic and “A lively page-turner . critical take on contemporary that also digs deep into the society’s ambivalent very foundations of public relationship with data.” knowledge. What do we really know, and how do we know —Saskia Sassen, author of it? Graves provides thought- Expulsions provoking answers.” —Rodney Benson, New York University CUP.COLUMBIA.EDU • CUPBLOG.ORG contents OCTOBER 2016 UP FRONT Beyond the Killing Fields Can tourism help Cambodia face its brutal past? BY BRENT CRANE Shop Till You Drop Corporate America cashes in on Armageddon. BY RACHEL MONROE The New Hillarycare How Clinton can make amends for welfare reform. BY CLIO CHANG Q&A: The Occupier What did the 99 percent actually achieve? BY ALEX SHEPHARD The Ladies’ Man How Trump is firing up female candidates. BY LAURA RESTON COLUMN Divide and Conquer What Trump learned from sports and stand-up comedy. BY JEET HEER Red-State Blues Why do people support Trump and the Tea Party? REVIEW A native son and a sociologist search for answers. Me Oh My! Jonathan Safran Foer writes BY JEDEDIAH PURDY about himself. BY MICHELLE DEAN The Beat Don’t Stop Breaking down hip-hop’s past and future. BY SASHA FRERE-JONES The Philosopher Destination Boise Enigma Variations and Her Camera Every year, a thousand refugees Notes toward a theory of Nell Zink. BY JOSEPHINE LIVINGSTONE A conversation with filmmaker Ava from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East journey to Idaho to make a new life DuVernay about race, Hollywood, and Prophet and Loss the urgent need for prison reform. in America. Marx in a world that’s made peace PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANGIE SMITH BY RACHEL KAADZI GHANSAH with capitalism. BY MICHAEL KAZIN Utopian Kink Reports from the frontiers of free love. BY TONY TULATHIMUTTE Trump’s Court Jesters All the Rage Backstory Meet the rogues’ gallery of outcasts, Sanders and Trump represent two PHOTOGRAPH BY MIKE BELLEME opportunists, and extremists sides of American populism— who make up his inner circle. and a far larger upheaval to come. BY JOHN B. JUDIS COVER ILLUSTRATION BY ANDRÉ CARRILHO POETRY BY JAVIER ZAMORA On a Dirt Road Outside Oaxaca PHOTOGRAPH BY STACY KRANITZ OCTOBER contributors Editor in Chief Sasha Frere-Jones is a writer from Brooklyn who lives in Los Win McCormack Angeles. From the age of twelve, he bought every rap record he could Editor find in New York. The earliest were on local labels like Enjoy and Sugar Eric Bates Hill—including the seven-inch version of “Rapper’s Delight,” for $1.29. Executive Editor Culture Editor Then the entire country started making rap. He tried to keep up. Ryan Kearney Michelle Legro THE BEAT DON’T STOP, P. Politics Editor Features Directors Bob Moser Sasha Belenky Deputy Editor Theodore Ross Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist living in Brooklyn. Ryu Spaeth Senior Editors Her forthcoming book, The Explainers & The Explorers, includes Story Editor Brian Beutler profiles of Toni Morrison, Ona Judge, and Serena Williams. In her Laura Marsh Jeet Heer News Editor work, she aims to identify how black America will define itself in the Managing Editor Laura Reston Alex Shephard twenty-first century. THE PHILOSOPHER AND HER CAMERA, P. Poetry Editor Art Director Cathy Park Hong Andy Omel John B. Judis is the author of The Populist Explosion: How the Photo Director Social Media Editor Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics, which Stephanie Heimann Sarah Jones explores the anity between populist movements in the United States Production Director Reporter-Researchers Pamela Brandt and Western Europe. He is an editor at large at Talking Points Memo Clio Chang Steven Cohen and a former senior editor at the NEW REPUBLIC. ALL THE RAGE, P. Contributing Editors Anakwa Dwamena James Burnett, Alexander Chee, Sukjong Hong Ben Crair, Michelle Dean, Michael Kazin is a history professor at Georgetown University Siddhartha Deb, Michael Eric Dyson, Interns Paul Ford, Ted Genoways, and editor of Dissent. During the New Left’s heyday, he called himself Saif Alnuweiri William Giraldi, Dana Goldstein, a Marxist, but he gradually grew wary of ideologies that turn into Harrison Stetler Kathryn Joyce, Suki Kim, faiths. “I started studying history and things got complicated, what can Maria Konnikova, Corby Kummer, I say?” His next book, War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, Jen Percy, Jamil Smith, Graeme Wood, Robert Wright 1914–1918, will be published in January. PROPHET AND LOSS, P. Andy Kroll is a Pun Foundation reporting fellow whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, National Journal, and Mother Jones. He reported the cover story on Donald Trump’s inner circle with VP of Marketing and Associate Publisher Communications Art Stupar assistance from Saif Alnuweiri, Clio Chang, Steven Cohen, Sukjong Erika Velazquez Hong, and Harrison Stetler. TRUMP’S COURT JESTERS, P. Senior Integrated Director of Sales Marketing Manager Suzanne Wilson Evelyn Frison Advertising Account Director Josephine Livingstone is a writer and academic in New Nano Fabuss Audience and York. She first read Nell Zink’s The Wallcreeper on her phone while Partnership Manager Associate Account Executive Shawn Awan commuting to NYU. As she reached the final page, a mouse ran over Eliza Fish her foot on the subway platform at West 4th Street. Like Zink, Controller Livingstone admires this garbage planet. ENIGMA VARIATIONS, P. David Myer Office Manager, NY Tori Campbell Jedediah Purdy, like J.D. Vance, grew up in Appalachia and attended Yale Law School. Reading Vance’s and Arlie Russell Publisher Hochschild’s books, he reflected, “We’ve entered a part of the political Hamilton Fish season when people really want to understand where ‘the other side’ is coming from.” He has explored questions of American political identity in three of his books: For Common Things, Being America, and Published by Lake Avenue Publishing 1 Union Square West, A Tolerable Anarchy. RED-STATE BLUES, P. New York, NY 10003 President Angie Smith is a Los Angeles–based photographer. She first Win McCormack encountered the refugee community in Idaho five years ago, while visiting her father in Boise. Some were reluctant to talk at first, For subscription Inquiries or problems call (800) 827-1289 but she slowly gained their trust. “Most people want to be seen, For reprints and licensing visit www.TNRreprints.com heard, and acknowledged,” she says. DESTINATION BOISE, P. NEW REPUBLIC from the stacks IN THE SPRING OF , Montana pacifist and suragette Jeannette Rankin became the first woman sworn in to Congress. That year, women in 18 states could vote for president. Yet, as the founding editors of the ­ pointed out, most newspapers seemed to think their female readers were only interested in recipes for jam tarts, cures for wrinkles, and instructions for “the pickling of young cucum- bers.” Rankin had run on a platform of social welfare and women’s surage, but the press focused on her household duties and fashion sense: “The exact nuance of her hair was controversial newspaper matter for weeks after her election,” the editors lamented. A century later, as the nation weighs whether to elect its first female president, it is remarkable how much the media still judge women in poli- tics by their appearance rather than their achievements. Over her long career, Hillary Clinton has been criticized for everything from her pantsuits to her makeup. As she noted only four years ago, her hairstyle—like Rankin’s before her—“is one of the great fascinations of our time.” But Clinton made her peace with such non- sense years ago. “If I want to knock a story o the front page,” she quipped back in 1995, “I just change my hairstyle.” Jeannette Rankin at a rally in New York, 1924. The Editors According to Gender SEPTEMBER , The press could really accomplish something paragraphs that she made her own hats almost pathetic relief. Domestic anarchy by giving a definite page to the record of and dresses and a certain “wonderful may darken the future, but one of its har- women’s hopes and achievements as citi- lemon meringue pie.” bingers can make lemon meringue pie and zens of the world. The suffrage problem, the One New York advocate of woman suf- the cataclysm is at least postponed. trade union problem, the equal pay for equal frage writes enthusiastically of a speech That this was the natural position to take work problem, all these and others are being made by Miss Rankin at a gathering in her against the first feminine interlopers, one precipitated by the war, and they furnish honor: “Her white chiffon dress fluttered can easily understand.
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