Don't Be A Hero
Jordan Flaherty's No More Heroes describes the harm committed by the modern-day do-gooder, but stops short of outlining systems of power that uphold the hero role
Feral Memes
The ISISCat is an LOLCat gone feral
The Case for Medical Reparations
After forcing black people to suffer centuries of unethical medical experimentation, what should American medicine owe them?
Bloodless Lies
This Is an Uprising is a widely celebrated new book about how social movements history distorts their histories to celebrate non-violence
Trump 2.0
The extreme distance between Trump’s attempted centrism in 2000 and his championing of the alt-right in 2016 is a product of a rapid proliferation of publics in new media
Regulating Ruins
Ruin chic is the ruin regulated, stabilized and packaged for consumption
Death Immortalized
Not Space Race Victory, but Space Race Defeat
Expressed in Fits
Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits flips the traditional dance script on its ass
You Weren’t Educated, You Were Trained
Alejandro Zambra’s Multiple Choice is a damning indictment of the test-as-fate
What is Aleppo?
Aleppo is every broken promise, bundled lie, and double standard implicit in the mantra “never again.”
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
America loves to watch its best and brightest come undone, but it’s never really understood them. Look at Jessie Spano.
The Unproven Body
Charting the losses of contestable sickness
People Sorters
The idea of regulating immigration by questionnaire is not so far-fetched, nor is it new.
Hollywood's Drug War
Day of the Dead Rhetoric
Testing Beyond Control
In search of support, not surveillance
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
Why do high-achieving students help others cheat?