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.
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
Becoming a Leak
Institutions track us through our blood, sweat, and tears, but embracing leakiness has the potential to be a productive experience for an individual
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Spell-Check Nation
Why do people continue to align themselves with the fantasy of a decorous state?
Trust in Instinct
Sarah Schulman embeds shame within the emotional landscape of Conflict Is Not Abuse.
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.