Readings

Today's super rich are something new—technologically innovative, largely self-made, and able to guide political discourse like never before. The award-winning journalist and author of Plutocrats talks about her travels with this über class and how their interests somehow got confused with the collective interest.

The case here described is real, witnessed by the author in Small Claims Court. The names have been changed and some details and times condensed. This week: a dispute over a tax rebate prompts some thoughts on the value of the court itself.

How the trash-talking singer could be this generation's incarnation of the wonderfully disagreeable critic and novelist.

With a new collection of essays, bank robber, and celebrated author Stephen Reid talks to Hazlitt from his current incarceration about why prisoners write.

Hazlitt talks with former prison librarian Avi Steinberg—author of Running the Books—about the necessity of communication, the future of libraries, and helping inmates find their own voice.