September 1, 2023
Samuel Moyn— The Cold War ended decades ago. It seems like, well, ancient history. The same must seem true of the form of liberalism that emerged in the middle of… READ MORE
March 16, 2020
Kristina Spohr — It is striking that hardly anybody in East or West in the late 1980s foresaw or imagined the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, let alone the demise of… READ MORE
August 23, 2019
David Brandenberger— Allegations of Russian dirty tricks in the 2016 US presidential campaign often treat the issue of interference as if it were a historic, unprecedented transgression. But although the… READ MORE
December 22, 2017
Eugene Ford— It took me a year to sort through volumes of Thai religious journals in the sometimes sweltering halls of Bangkok’s monastic libraries, where the few Western researchers sat… READ MORE
August 21, 2017
Joshua Shannon– From its very first days, the Trump administration and its supporters have sought to justify certain statements, proposals, and actions (and indeed to assert Trump’s popularity) by issuing… READ MORE
May 8, 2017
Herbert S. Klein & Francisco Vidal Luna— There is little question that the U.S. was directly involved in the overthrow of the democratic government of Brazil in 1964. In the subsequent… READ MORE
April 15, 2015
Karen M. Paget— While writing Patriotic Betrayal, which chronicles a major Cold War covert operation with the U.S. National Student Association, I began a file in which I collected evidence… READ MORE
March 27, 2014
Tennent Harrington Bagley, author and former C.I.A. officer, passed away on Feb. 20 in Brussels at the age of 88. While working for the C.I.A., Bagley assisted a Soviet spy,… READ MORE
January 31, 2014
People who watch U.S. television shows, attend Hollywood movies, and listen to pop music can’t help but believe that we are a nation in which we have sex with strangers… READ MORE
![Ed Ruscha, The Old Trade School Building, 2005. Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 120 in. (137.2 x 304.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President. [P2005.01]. © Edward J. Ruscha IV/Gagosian Gallery. Photo provided by Ed Ruscha Studio.](https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/yup-wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20135340/quickfig1172-copy-scaled.jpg)
The Pull of Design: Notes on the Exhibition Ed Ruscha/Now Then