Alexis Grenell (@agrenell) as monthly columnists, and announced that national affairs correspondent
Jeet Heer (@heerjeet) will expand his remit to include a new monthly column, “Morbid Symptoms,” a nod to philosopher Antonio Gramsci’s famous remark: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
Bromwich’s column, “No Offense,” will deal with civil liberties, America’s wars, political personalities, and party programs, and diverse cultural issues such as the influence of language on thinking and the social impact of the arts. The first installment appears in the February 8/15, 2021, edition of the magazine: “