"In our
summer culture issue, we bring you decomposing cities that tremble with
vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule,
journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial
foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can
you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn
annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon
Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard
fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite
the pretender down? This 172-page issue also offers poems, stories,
graphic art, and, just for kicks, the first-ever look at Christopher
Lasch’s 1972 novel.
Contributors include Thomas Frank, Jed Perl, Steve Almond, Chris
Lehmann, Jim Newell, Eugenia Williamson, Heather Havrilesky, Kim
Phillips-Fein, Emma Garman, Chris Bray, Matt Hinton, Will Boisvert,
Seth Colter Walls, Tod Mesirow, David D’Arcy, and The Homeless
Economist, who has a timely suggestion: “Green Gallows for the Wall
Street Bankers.”