Bread and Marginalism
..."The End of a Great Speculator" from Ten Years in Wall Street (1870) "Without food, clothing and shelter, man would most certainly die; no shadow of doubt about...
Care: The Highest Form of Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen’s latest book covers America's care economy, its carceral legacy, and the potential for intervention in systems of exploitation.
The History of Dialogue (3): Brecht vs. the HUAC
...committee’s ‘misunderstanding’ of his work and his politics. Nonetheless, Brecht was praised by HUAC chair Rep. John Parnell Thomas (R-NJ) for his cooperativeness. Brecht flew to Zurich the day after...
Death and Life in Great American Cities
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
True Sailing Is Dead
...own quixotic quest for credibility) to exposing himself while inebriated during a performance in Florida. Lost in his Roman wilderness of pain, he would eventually die of a drug overdose...
The Island
...’n Gevangene werksaam in die tuin. “A prisoner working in the garden.” The prisoner is not working. He stands erect, faces forward. He wears a floppy hat and dark glasses...
Skin Feeling
...with seeing bodies that raises the ghosts of racial memory. These ghosts haunt black performance: Charlie Parker, for example, grew up with and rejected the comedy of the minstrel show,...
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
Standard Gawker English
...his style makes across-the-aisle alienation a foregone conclusion. But he’s hardly alone; when it comes to “provoke and persuade,” Fox News already leads the way, leaving a trail of scorched...
Margot, Not at the Wedding
...into a bad woman’s lover. In the beginning, La Mole believes Margot to be evil; by the end, she’s saved his life by allowing him to die a martyr—pure again,...
Islamophobia as Narrative Device, in the Second Person
...where Free Speech goes to die. Geller’s organization is a lot closer to the Skokie-Illinois test case for free speech: if you allow even this, then you can say that...
Holing Up
...by this, as a child. If she doesn’t grow old, can she still learn? Will she die young? Will she rust up when Mike dies, or will he live forever...
Iron Gandhi
...personal triumph, but also his great political failure. The tactic [self-suffering] has no generalized value.” So what can we salvage from Gandhi that didn’t die with him? For Finkelstein, it’s...
The Body Always Remembers
...series. Cassandra Troyan: I am someone who comes from a very distinct mindset—Midwest salt-of-the-earth, work hard, work-until-you-die kind of mindset. For so long that has unconsciously affected the ways I...
I'm With Stupid
...thousand-pointed star.” Having completed the virginal sacrifice, Rodrigo realizes what he might have accepted without the crushed viscera and traumatized naif, “The best thing is still this: not to die,...
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft