Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 2
...WILLIE OSTERWEIL Liberalism is dead. It inspires nothing and no one, and it hasn't for a decade. Obama's charisma and the total lack of viable Republican leaders obscured this for...
Anti-Fascisting
“None of us, under capitalism, can claim to be wholly free of fascism.” An interview with Natasha Lennard.
TNI Vol. 9 Editorial Note: On Music, Utopia, and Failure
...contemporary “party rockers” LMFAO. Tavia Nyong’o takes stock of Frank Ocean while Willie Osterweil asks whether punk rock has, at long last, failed. Finally, Greil Marcus offers a brief comment...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 63: Patriots
It's an affirmation of what people of color have always known
Vol. 24 Editors' Note: War by Other Means
...kid mixed martial arts? In “How Can You Watch That Stuff?” Willie Osterweil discusses how in the fans’ eagerness to defend MMA’s legitimacy, they willfully deny its brutality. Overidentifying with...
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
Patriots
...corporations are not the only victors. Willie Osterweil’s “Liberalism Is Dead” offers a vision of the near future crafted by corporatocratic libertarians, the Silicon Valley counterpart to the reinvigorated authoritarian...
TNI Rex (3)
...A bi-weekly round up of recommendations from around the interwebs by TNI’s editors and staff. Willie Osterweil, Editor Comic: Cul de Sac "Comic strips are a mighty yet dying...
Editors' Note, Vol. 35: Sick
...of course they are targets of shame. In “Weight Gains,” Willie Osterweil examines the equally shame-ridden problem of obesity, though its medical status isn’t nearly as stable as that of...
Sick
...that made them sick from the start. Trapped between refusal and fidelity, of course they are targets of shame. In “Weight Gains,” Willie Osterweil examines the equally shame-ridden problem of...
Cops 2
...includes Willie Osterweil’s defense of looting, written in August 2014 as Ferguson’s rebels continued to take the streets night after night. He offers a vision of looting—collective expropriation of private...
Vol. 1: Precarity
...by FREDDIE DEBOER Collateral Damage with WILLIE OSTERWEIL & SUSAN SALTER REYNOLDS Upping the Anti-Hero by MALCOLM HARRIS Accounting for Sex by AUTUMN WHITEFIELD-MADRANO Unfree Labor by TIM BARKER Rootless...
Vol. 9: Concept Album
...by WILLIE OSTERWEIL Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times by MICHAEL SEIDENBERG Response to Call for Submissions by GREIL MARCUS The point of looking at music and failure...
Vol. 3: Arguing the Web
...Control by MAX FOX Your Friends and Neighbors by MATT PEARCE Kissing is not the Answer by HELENA FITZGERALD Picture Pluperfect by NATHAN JURGENSON Internet as Euphemism by WILLIE OSTERWEIL...
Vol. 5: Spies
...TABLE OF CONTENTS Excerpts The Zone, MATHAIS ÉNARD Shines Like Gold, IMP KERR The Secret Shopper by WILLIE OSTERWEIL Agents Without Agency by ROB HORNING The Future Is...