Selling Roots
Can DNA tests really tell us anything about our ethnic identity?
Prescription Strike
The CIA’s use of vaccine programs as cover for covert operations in Pakistan has endangered aid workers and undermined the fight against polio
Labor Pains
When Western women rent other women’s wombs to carry their children, it undermines the unifying potential of the reproductive commons
Fjordian Slip
The second volume of Karl Ove Knausgård’s epic exploration of the everyday, in all its glorious meaninglessness
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Hot Babe
The Hot Babe is no one in particular, and neither are you
An Infantile Disorder
If jobs mean maturity, not everyone gets to grow up
The Birth of Motherhood
It takes a lot of propaganda to make mothering seem natural
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy
Vol. 18 Editors' Note: Family Planning
The family is less a haven in a heartless world than an arrangement that has focused efforts at social improvement on relationships supposedly spun of love and affection.