Blood and Glory
After 9/11, the bodies at Ground Zero were made heroic; the immigrant bodies that cleaned them up, less so
Nuclear Renewal
Viewers can now browse footage of Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests on Youtube. What is the value of that access?
Party Like It’s 1992
Early colonization and current gentrification are linked by their use of cages to gain land and exert zero-sum autonomy over those with darker skin
Blue Dream
PrEP allows gay men of color to feel cared for but also managed and made into data
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Call Volume
A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
Can the Subaltern Vote?
In 2016, the Democratic Party started seeing Muslims as voters, but that’s not necessarily a favor
This is Not a Simulation
The computer simulation hypothesis reveals how the American liberal elite questions everything except the insufficiency of liberalism itself
The American Model
What appears to be still difficult, even as it gets told in ever finer detail, is the simple and immense situation that America and Nazi Germany are two instantiations of a single history of white supremacist rule.
The Pity of Okja
Okja critiques affective labor—but it nonetheless relies on its effects to market animal rights
No SWAT Zone
Resisting police militarization under Trump.
Terror’s Lawfare
Reading Canada’s and Sri Lanka’s anti-terror acts reveals the need for comparative and cross-jurisdictional resistance to globally self-justifying discourses of “terror”
Dispensing God’s Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.