A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America.

Though amusing and clever as political and social satire, critics at the time were unimpressed by its rambling plot and uneven narrative – and it has never been regarded as great literature.

He discovered politics at the age of 12, when General Manuel Odría overthrew a democratic government in Peru headed by a cousin of his maternal grandfather.

This spectacle is disseminated through and amplified by a type of political and social experience machine that compels ...

The world we inhabit is the result of a chain of decisions, none of them inevitable. Journalism can help inform those decisions and how people think about them.

For example, I spent several days trying to locate the work of a cartoonist (name forgotten) in a turn-of-the-century satire magazine ... in the next day in the papers. Back then, I made ...

P rofessional critics from various fields are often accused of having the nerve to provide commentary on work that they, themselves, cannot do. Some argue that only people working ...

Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis? Reason's Nick Gillespie talks ...

In "Fake It Until You Make It" at Arena Stage, playwright Larissa FastHorse sends up do-gooders with an unfocused hand.