Shaheen Bagh
...return and resume their activities. There was something spiritual about that experience. The professional leftists, while appreciative of the number of people gathered, expressed their chagrin at what they perceived...
Eikonoklastes: Violence and Speech
...In her latest self-plagiarism, for example, Ayaan Hirsi Ali concludes by declaring, of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, that “his right to publish it was a more sacred thing than...
Devils in Red Dress
...into sacrificing their interests in order to preserve the stability of a society that first Communism and then economic liberalization shattered—and to do their part to make sure that the...
Guest Post: The Politics of Tibetan "Plateau Redness"
...of Tibetan women simply constituted another “a form of social violence.” Some were also irked by the burdens and limitations the piece placed on Tibetan women’s personal freedoms. One commenter...
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words
...look. [1]For example, to back up the statement “It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor” on page 350,...
"life that could fit in a spreadsheet"
...the proliferation of writing courses and with the widespread aspiration to be a professional writer; sometimes it seems as if it were a matter of formulas, like applying a cooking...
Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live: Gabriel García Márquez's Memory
...they bring of the latest science as to be a complete absence as a father. Indeed, until about fifteen pages into the novel, we only know he has a family...
Bloodless Coop
...we know is less sustainable than the myriad of equally cruelty-free alternatives that can be already made from wheat, soy, and other materials. But in spite of the buzz, most...
Cool Women
When the apparently hard-edged rejection of identity betrays a hidden sentimentalism
How the Bronx was Branded
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
Mass Authentic
...to the process of endlessly managing our personal brand, valorizing authentic goods, performing emotional labor, circulating tokens of “realness,” building out quasi-professional networks, generating new circuits of value. Self-realization becomes...
Thank You for Shopping: Customer Loyalty Programs
...Sephora. I mean, sure, getting a free lipstick now and then might count as saving you money, if that shade and opacity of lipstick happens to be the kind of...
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
The World and What it Isn't: Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names."
...to be sure, and it is a vision shaped by the author's own familiarity with the margins of society. "It came from living in the bush," he says. "It came...