Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Green Nightmares
Fossil fuel resistance and repression are escalating
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
American Woman
Wonder Woman unsettles superheroes from within a national tradition that demands their existence
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs
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