Fake Painting
...may be happening quite a bit more than we think, there might be another 60 prolific forgers we just don’t know about. These incidents are so popular -- nearly every...
Can the Subaltern Vote?
In 2016, the Democratic Party started seeing Muslims as voters, but that’s not necessarily a favor
Disgorge the Cash
...of the 200 largest American companies, and initially a site of bitter criticism of the shareholder revolution—to change its position on business objectives to read “the paramount duty of management...
Critical Moments: Burning with Pride
...hear, but that whole Christian bit has been used against Negro people too long. These people here could loot for ten years and not get back half of the money...
Race, Recognition, and Exotica
...even though I’m usually only called exotic by men, and usually when the context makes me think I’m being sexualized just the teensiest bit, there’s a part of me that...
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
No Choice but Freedom
...Communism, what they are saying is that markets more effectively produced discipline. It was more successful at imposing patterns of human action and restriction conducive to military and economic production...
Making Again, Making Against
...couldn’t be worth more than two sous—as it is only a bit of gold painted on glass—he happily paid five francs for it. Why, we might wonder, would he give...
The Man Who Saved Prospect Park
...of a man so highly regarded that, like a saint, his passing inspired mythologizing Most of what we know about Gibson comes from John Coleman Adams's 1901 biography William Hamilton...
A Heaven of Hell
...York scene -- patrons and stars of CBGBs between the late Sixties and mid-Eighties, to vastly oversimplify a category -- have come out with their own literature, and enough has...
The World According to Modern Monetary Theory
...of genuine scarcity? What feels like inflation may actually be wage deflation combined with artificial scarcity imposed by monopolists, speculators, and rent seekers. The effects of those ills will not...
School's Out Forever
...need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces, the competition for the best teachers should be fierce, they should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government...
This Week In Art Crime
...• • • To fight rent prices and bring a bit of whimsy to the morning commute, an unknown New Yorker set up a cardboard living room on the N...
“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.
Got No Shame, Got No Pride
...male model out of International Male. Faith-era George Michael seems to owe a bit of a debt to Bonnet. The startling conceptual departure that Bonnet marked merely through his physical...
A guillotinable mass of lame
...station, I heard an actually beautiful act: coming off a carefully non-exciting exhaltation to take Him into your heart, they played U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."...