Consciously or Unconsciously
...his valid claim to the throne, engineers a near casualty-free coup. The only victims are that family of pretenders representative of “all decadent democracies,” in an outcome that will be...
Dear Mammy
...even working out or playing video games anymore. Damn. Sorry we didn’t get a chance to meet up to discuss my article (that you inspired!). I’m sure you’ll see it...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...and economic relationship with the West, one that actually devalues and destabilizes the infrastructure necessary to prevent and contain a disease like Ebola. After all, the three hardest hit countries...
Trash
...that can command a higher price. This leads to massive amounts of construction waste; in 2011 alone, 2 billion tons of building materials ended up as trash, most piling up...
Sunday Reading
...consequences of student debt The college-cost denial industry A better professional organization Great Books and the white male "universal" "[T]he University actually has a vested interest in weaning itself from...
Meat Market
...seeing is simultaneously a conscious selection of flora that was endemic to Manhattan Island prior to urbanization and the nostalgic preservation of an industrial infrastructure prior to New York’s latest...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Solid Personal Achievements
...the novel where I’m just completely having fun and I’m free and I’m not burdened by a sense of duty or responsibility, I was just having fun.” Something is happening...
African Poetry: Chielezona Eze
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com When I started reading poetry scholarship as an undergraduate, I struggled to figure out how critics were doing what they were doing. My...
The Deep Resentment of Having to Think About It: Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
...could no longer pretend that this is simply an abstract and legalistic question of "religion," "government," and "medicine." It would suddenly be apparent that the female public and the male...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)
...a radical transformation of the world. It was quickly apparent that defending the bocage 2 was inseparable from inhabiting, nourishing, and building infrastructure on it, and that all of these...
No SWAT Zone
Resisting police militarization under Trump.
Classics
...brand been girls, the movie couldn’t have been so earnest. With misogynistic irony (or is it ironic misogyny), the Tiqqun collective’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl offers...
Vol. 68 Editors' Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
Immortal Techniques
23andMe makes the human body immortal at last
The Future, Probably
...endless stories about the coming Armageddon. The fires, the waves, the epidemics and food shortages and rising seas have partially replaced the retro contours of the mushroom cloud in the...
The Thin Blue Lie
...Inside the courtroom, I was treated to a display of professional incompetence unlike any I’d seen before. The attorney for the DAO—an employee of the Police Department, not the CCRB,...