In his three-volume survey of America's fall, Morris Berman seeks the source of our civilization’s decline in its innermost principle. What he finds at the bottom of our nation's soul is … hustling.
"And, after all, it is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in his private life..."
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The future came to Kentucky the same way industrial capitalism arrives anywhere: by demoralizing labor, exploiting natural resources, and capturing local government.
from this struggle that built a first breakwater of defense to let us catch our breath and keep our heads above the flood of labor, from this struggle we had to begin.
Chocolate, "naughty virginity," and beauty products: The biggest thing that changed from the 14-year-old me dragging magazine samples of Red Door across my wrists and the 15-year-old me dabbing vanilla onto my neck was firsthand knowledge of what an orgasm was.
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
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.