Utopia and Its Discontents
On the Charlie Hebdo murders, the future of Europe, the Ukraine, capitalism, and the West.
On the Charlie Hebdo murders, the future of Europe, the Ukraine, capitalism, and the West.
Slawomir SierakowskiFeb 23, 2015
"Is this because China hasn’t caught up yet to our cynicism? Do we know something they don’t? Or is it the other way around?"
Rebecca Tuhus-DubrowFeb 22, 2015
On Marie Gottschalk, race, poverty, and welfare in the United States.
Stephen LurieFeb 4, 2015
Crime and Punishment: Is it too late to control the carceral state? Michael Meranze on Marie Gottschalk’s "commanding and disturbing" new book.
Michael MeranzeFeb 4, 2015
Flemming Rose’s "The Tyranny of Silence" is a subtly crafted and self-effacing investigation of the Danish Cartoon Crisis and the debates about free...
Morten Høi JensenJan 30, 2015
“Yet when the trauma hero myth is taken as representing the ultimate truth of more than a decade of global aggression, as in it does in American...
Roy ScrantonJan 25, 2015
“Personalism” combines the radical libertarian belief in the importance of the individual with the communist belief in the importance of the entire...
Guy Patrick CunninghamJan 24, 2015
W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” once again offers not just words of comfort, but clues on how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Nina MartyrisJan 21, 2015
As the CIA continues to grow and publish reports on its own activities, it has developed a style all its own. Federal Surrealism.
Grayson ClaryJan 17, 2015
On the poetic struggle of two familial, and familiar, figures of speech
Ava KofmanJan 11, 2015
The #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the deaths that spurred it, should make all of us who celebrate ask: What does Christmas mean this year? And what...
Briallen HopperDec 23, 2014
Tom Streithorst unravels the myths of modern economics.
Tom StreithorstDec 20, 2014
"The weighty task of wrenching terrorism and martyrdom apart and policing the divide between them takes place on a daily basis in news commentary and...
Candida MossDec 17, 2014
The bad news from one of the finest national security journalists working today.
Zach DorfmanDec 17, 2014
Nine years after the empty fruit bowl, “My Story” is a highly calculated act of self-presentation.
Catriona Menzies-PikeNov 30, 2014
No longer home to the open-road outlaws and concrete cowboys of the ’70s, becoming a trucker is now the equivalent of operating a sweatshop on wheels...
Llewellyn Hinkes-JonesNov 25, 2014
Tyler Cowen’s "Average Is Over"
Guy Patrick CunninghamNov 24, 2014
Writing in the same year that Thatcher was elected, Foucault described a nascent neoliberalism now in its mature state. For three graduate students...
Anna Shechtman, Peter Raccuglia, Susan MorrowNov 7, 2014
"The events in Ukraine have expanded the meaning of maidan from that of geographical location (just an empty piece of land) to a term with symbolical...
Thorsten Botz-BornsteinOct 30, 2014
Bob Ames was an American who understood Arab culture, who could befriend Arabs.
Priyanka KumarOct 25, 2014
1894 marked an exceptional harvest of one of the most notable isms to take root in French soil: anarchism.
Robert ZaretskyOct 21, 2014
Israelis, Egyptians, and Americans were secluded at Camp David for 13 painstaking, frustrating, and very nearly fruitless days in September 1978.
Max StrasserOct 21, 2014
Naomi Klein issues a call to arms for “System Change, not Climate Change.”
Adam MorrisOct 21, 2014
The demand for electoral democracy in China can only be the beginning of a broader movement.
David Graeber, Yuk HuiOct 14, 2014