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Korea Under Ceasefire

By Minju BaeMay 27, 2025
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
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Health Equity Capture

By Marquisele MercedesNovember 27, 2024
How the weight-loss industry Uses Black celebrity in the Ozempic era
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AMLO All Along

By Pedro GersonNovember 26, 2024
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
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Seoul to Squeeze

By James ConstantOctober 30, 2024
Speculative capital will soon destroy one of the South Korean capital’s most vibrant and diverse working-class neighborhoods.
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Some Country for Some Women

By Kim Hew-LowSeptember 26, 2024
As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.
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Tiktok LLM

By Eleanor SternJune 24, 2024
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
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The Sentimentality of Evil

By Sari EdelsteinJune 20, 2024
The Zone of Interest can be understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and domestic labor.
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The Job of Consent

By Sohum PalMarch 27, 2024
The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex (October 2023) tests the limits of consent as a heuristic for "good sex," exposing the wide berth between pleasure and what is legible to the law.
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An American Education:
Notes from UATX

By Noah RawlingsFebruary 19, 2024
Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin, the campus of the "anti woke" commentariat. Student names have been anonymized.
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Housewife Demonology

By Jamie HoodFebruary 14, 2024
heteropessimism of the will, cruel optimism of the spirit
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Novel Evil

By Miriam GordisJanuary 15, 2024
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
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Exposed Bricks

By Patrick McGintyNovember 23, 2023
A Review of "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America"
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At the Tip of the Javelin

By Mike GallagherSeptember 13, 2023
Sport, Capital, and the Far Right
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Writing Like a Partisan

By Eleanor CarelessJuly 20, 2023
Forbidden Notebook by Alba De Céspedes offers insight into contemporary Italian fascism
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Folk Etymologies

By Eleanor SternJune 22, 2023
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
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Exporting the Revolution

By Bassem SaadFebruary 16, 2023
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)

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