Scheduled Readings

Week

September 4, Week 2

Readings

• Bill Keller & Glenn Greenwald, an exchange: “Is Glenn Greenwald the future of News?” October 27. 2013, The New York Times.
• Brent Cunningham, “Rethinking Objectivity,” Columbia Journalism Review.
• Jay Rosen, “The View from Nowhere,” PressThink, November 10, 2010.
• Margaret Sullivan, “The Public Doesn’t Understand the Risks of a Trump Victory: That’s the Media’s Fault,” The Guardian, November 9, 2023.

September 11, Week 3

• George Orwell, “Politics & the English Language,” 1946.
• ‘Fetal Heartbeat’ vs ‘Forced Pregnancy’: The Language of the Abortion Debate,” The New York Times, May 22, 2019
• Christopher Hitchens, “Wanton Acts of Usage: Terrorism, a Cliché in Search of a Meaning,” Harpers Magazine
• Margaret Sullivan, “The Media Fell for Pro-Life Rhetoric – and Helped Create This Mess,” The Washington Post, May 5, 2022

September 18, Week 4

• Please refer to the email sent by the professor with subject line “This week’s readings”

September 25, Week 5

• Jia Tolentino, “Is Abortion Sacred?” The New Yorker, July 16, 2022.
• Eyal Press, “Do Immigrants Make Us Safer?” The New York Times Magazine, December 3, 2006.
• John McPhee, “Structure,” The New Yorker, January 6, 2013.

October 9, Week 6

• Joan Didion, “Sentimental Journeys,” The New York Review of Books, 1991
• Susan Sontag, “Tuesday, and After,” The New Yorker, September 16, 2001

October 16, Week 7

• David Samuels, “The Making of a Fugitive,” The New York Times Magazine, March 21, 1999.
• Jonathan Blitzer, “How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump To Further His Immigration Obsession,” The New Yorker, February 21, 2020.

October 23, Week 8

• Pankaj Mishra, “The Shoah After Gaza,” London Review of Books, March 21, 2024
• Carl Gershman, “Who Is Committing Genocide?” Tablet, November 16, 2023.

October 30, Week 9

• “The Road to 1948,” a discussion moderated by Emily Bazelon, The New York Times Magazine, February 1, 2024.
• Isaac Chotiner, “Elliott Abrams and the Contradictions of U.S. Human Rights Policy,” The New Yorker, April 29, 2024.

November 6, Week 10

• Eyal Press, “The Problem with Planned Parenthood,” The New Yorker, May 8, 2023.
• David French, “The Great Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement,” The New York Times April 11, 2024.
• Eyal Press, “A Botched Operation,” The New Yorker, January 26, 2014.

November 13, Week 11

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to My Son,” The Atlantic, July 14, 2015
• Raja Shehadah, “The Nakba, Father’s Papers and Jaffa Revisited,” New York Review of Books, October 1, 2021.
• Eyal Press, “My Father’s Abortion War,” The New York Times Magazine, January 22, 2006