Ron Rosenbaum on Profiles
Rosenbaum is the author of seven books of nonfiction, including Explaining Hitler, The Shakespeare Wars and most recently How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III (just out in paperback). His work has appeared in Esquire, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, and he is currently a cultural columnist for Slate.Photo by: Nina Roberts
What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
The digital pioneer and visionary behind virtual reality has turned against the very culture he helped create
January 2013 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Why Oliver Sacks is One of the Great Modern Adventurers
The neurologist’s latest investigations of the mind explore the mystery of hallucinations – including his own
December 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Lewis Lapham’s Antidote to the Age of BuzzFeed
With his erudite Quarterly, the legendary Harper’s editor aims for an antidote to digital-age ignorance
November 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Martin Amis Contemplates Evil
England’s most famous living novelist has moved to America—and tilted the literary world
September 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Barbara Kruger's Artwork Speaks Truth to Power
The mass media artist has been refashioning our idioms into sharp-edged cultural critiques for three decades—and now brings her work to the Hirshhorn
July 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Rosanne Cash and the Many Meanings of Love
One of the most gifted singer-songwriters of our time talks love, science and the deep space between men and women
June 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Should LBJ Be Ranked Alongside Lincoln?
Robert Caro, the esteemed biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson, talks on the Shakespearean life of the 36th president
May 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack
America's longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing
April 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Errol Morris: The Thinking Man's Detective
The documentary filmmaker has become America's most surprising and provocative public intellectual
March 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
Revisiting The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Recently reissued, William L. Shirer's seminal 1960 history of Nazi Germany is still important reading
February 2012 |
By Ron Rosenbaum
