History Against the Grain
A new global story of food tracks the rise of “middling cuisine,” but neglects to read for the hungry
Coal Comfort
Understanding capitalism’s use of fossil fuels to control labor puts us in a better position to fight it
Settled History
Tourist attractions in contested settlements use local history to project Israeli nationalism into the future
Forget Me Not
Memorials to dead cops try to bury injustice in a display of ersatz collective grief
Political Currency
Chartalist history shows the fantasy of money and the market as outside the state to be a fraud
How Early Cookbooks Sparked a Lifestyle Revolution
The discreet charms of the bourgeoisie owe something to the attractions of life as conjured by cookbook authors
Fossil Fools
The fossil fuel-based economy seems impossible to leave behind, but it’s only as immoveable as it is profitable.
The Party
A new film that follows the course of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. With footage from Richmond, Oakland, and San Francisco, the film…
That Transformative Dark Thing
The practice of Black feminist breathing evokes a lineage of Black revolutionaries whose faith in freedom continues to inspire individual and communal modes of survival, love and transformation
Memory and Preservation
The monuments in Jalada’s Afrofuture(s) Anthology
The Collection and the Cloud
In the future, will platforms own our pasts?
Stone-Age Nostalgia
The deep history of fashionable forgetting
Some of This Actually Happened
American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street, in and out of history
Varsity Voracity
Higher learning and higher caloric intake have long gone hand in hand