Laughing at America
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America suggests that white guilt is only a distant feeling
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Human Nature
...believe, is the key to unlocking an epochal crisis in capitalism. The crisis won’t come from nature alone; capitalism won’t end without us. Most of us tend to operate as...
Operation Streamline
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.
Panpsychism's Labyrinth
...from the “inauthentic.” Bloch’s work “demonstrates a radical indifference to the problem of objectification in culture,” Rabinbach writes, “and therefore to the problem of whether or not objectification constitutes the...
Counterfeit
...only up until it’s recognized on its own merits. Authenticity is not a commodity, but it is a marker of value. Health emerges from “real” food, certified organic and tracked...
Autonomy in Kurdistan
...years, such as liberation in culture, art, gender relations, a new democratic perspective, organization of all sections of society on the basis of politics, civil society, and gender. We saw...
Guides for the Perplexed
...is ubiquitous and compelling, university administrators also try to win new students' loyalty with orientation programs, in which several days of social activities with other students and programming from the...
Time Is a Killer
...looks like she’s in her eighties. Look how wise she is, he speculates. Women, as carriers of culture, develop wrinkles that tell fortunes. Wise old creatures… Myrtle as Myrtle will...
The Body Always Remembers
...all in your head,” you’re not really in pain, and there’s a lot of shame around mental illness in our culture, too. So if your pain stems from trauma, then...
Editors' Note, Vol. 44: Counterfeit
...Versace collaboration, a product is counterfeit only up until it’s recognized on its own merits. Authenticity is not a commodity, but it is a marker of value. Health emerges from...
Print on Demand
...with the newness of their archive, especially compared to some of the material they encountered in their research. That weekend, we handled 18th century Islamic manuscripts and 20th century leftist...
Sunday Reading
...teachers' strike adds power to nationwide movements against inequality and racism Clock is ticking on the destruction of Chicago police misconduct files The real story of Sandra Bland "You know...
Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
...remarkable. Compare the actual "Group of Hair Death" ballot with a prospective ballot featuring those countries' female national players: Why would this be, when, generally speaking,...
Paradise Lost
The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams
Classics
...bourgeois society is war. Those who want to approach the knowledge held in the academy must also internalize its mechanisms. Some go on to help it reproduce itself, as teachers....