Disgorge the Cash
Companies used to borrow in the markets as a last resort for financing investment in their business. Now it’s a front for shareholder giveaways
The Art of Antarctic Cooking
It's a dog-eat-dog world down there at the South Pole
Get the Balance Right
A new biography of Walter Benjamin stumbles on the problem his writing addressed: how to write history without taking the victor’s perspective
The Postcapital Economy
China’s command-like economy may be better suited to cope with technologically driven abundance
In a Mirror, Darkly
A review of Helen Oyeyemi's novel Boy, Snow, Bird
We Have Met the Enemy
To find the villainous creditor class, we only have to look in the mirror. A review of Andrew Ross's Creditocracy
The World According to Modern Monetary Theory
Looking past money to the sovereign power that makes it valuable
Decolonizing Israel
The BDS movement is enjoying success because even at home, Zionists are beginning to lose the PR battle
Over Easy
Elite education may impoverish and indebt young women and do little to get them a job, but at least it makes their eggs valuable
The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
Since 1932, the Whitney Biennial has been a crib sheet for the market trends of contemporary art in the United States. These are the Cliffs Notes to the guide
Buying the Future
Financialization depends on a standardized product. What happens when it’s applied to people?
You Are Too Much
The Overly Attached Girlfriend's desire isn't oriented towards sex or even a boyfriend; both are just means to maximal intensity of feeling
Hungry for Love
With art that hopes to go too far, who gets to ask for forgiveness instead of permission?
Don't Look Now
Fifty years ago today the New York Times made Kitty Genovese the archetype of urban apathy and violence. Now we know just how wrong they were
Baghdad, Utopia
The problem of exile: the real rupture happens when you return
Tracing Ana
How artist Ana Mendieta is unremembered