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The persistence of The Saturday Evening Post
When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of ex-pat communities. Memories of the Civil War still cleaved the nation; European Jews, Irish, Italians, and Chinese immigrants lived in separate conclaves. The Germans and Scandinavians were already out farming the Midwest. There was no real sense...
Adbusters and the roots of the contemporary left
On November 15, 2011, just outside a boarded-up vacant lot in Lower Manhattan, several NYPD officers held down a protester and beat him with batons while a number of onlookers, including the actor Frances McDormand, chanted “Shame, shame, shame.” (It was the first time I’d seen such an assault; I was working for Variety and...
America’s most expansive airline magazine
In late 2015—the end of my first year as a full-time freelancer—I got a phone call most writers-for-hire dream of. On the other end of the line was J.K. Nickell, who was then senior editor at Southwest: The Magazine, the in-flight publication for the eponymous airline. Nickell and his staff had recently decided on a...
Fag Rag: The ’70s paper of gay political revolution
On the afternoon of April 25, 1964, the headline on the front page of the Chicago Daily News blared: “109 Arrested in Vice Den.” The den in question was Louie’s Fun Lounge, a gay club on the desolate outskirts of O’Hare International Airport. Raids of gay bars weren’t uncommon, but the size of this one—and...
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