Andrew Marantz

Dec 14, 2024 | newyorker.com | Andrew Marantz

A few days after the election, Musa al-Gharbi, a forty-one-year-old sociologist at Stony Brook University, published a lengthy piece on Substack called “A Graveyard of Bad Election Narratives,” using bar charts and cross tabs to “rule out what wasn’t the problem”: sexism, racism, third-party spoilers.

Nov 4, 2024 | newyorker.com | Andrew Marantz

Two Tuesdays ago—Cornel West’s last day in New York before Election Day—I went uptown to see him at his high-end apartment building in Morningside Heights, between Seminary Row and Reinhold Niebuhr Place.

Nov 1, 2024 | archive.ph | Benjamin Wallace-Wells |Evan Osnos |Andrew Marantz |Geraldo L. Cadava

At the end of October, a trim and smiling Joe Biden, no longer the Democratic candidate but still the President, delivered some pizzas to a few dozen phone-bankers at a union hall in western Pennsylvania. It was exactly the sort of image that was once supposed to define the 2024 campaign: Democrats saw in Biden a grandfatherly figure who had restored order and common purpose, while Republicans detected a doddering emblem of a frail and aging regime.

Nov 1, 2024 | newyorker.com | Andrew Marantz

Sometimes, when Tucker Carlson is in the shower, he takes a quiet moment to reflect on whether his haters may be right about him. I know this not firsthand but because he recently mentioned it to a few thousand fans in Rosenberg, Texas. He said, “I have been through this process for so many years, where they call you something”—in his case, a very incomplete list would include “venomous demagogue,” “crypto-Nazi blowhard,” “anti-science ignoramus,” and “a dick”—“and I actually do try to take stock.

Oct 28, 2024 | newyorker.com | Andrew Marantz

On the corner of Eighth Avenue and Thirty-third Street, Patriot Drummer Mike and Magashred Steve were finishing a two-man rendition of “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” by Twisted Sister. Mike played a snare drum and wore a tricorne hat; Steve played an electric guitar and wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat, signed by the man himself. They took a break and consulted a laminated set list: “Stayin’ Alive,” “Rawhide,” “Folsom Prison Blues” rewritten as “J6 Prison Blues,” and a few Civil War anthems.