Divided and Conquered
If we stopped talking about racism, sexism, the LGBT community, and immigrants, would that mean we could finally break up the banks?
Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor is the cofounder of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors. She is the director of numerous documentaries and the author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart and Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, among other works. Her latest book is Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, coauthored with Leah Hunt-Hendrix.
Who, the People?
Who counts as the people, and how can that definition be revised and updated in shifting historical circumstances?
Missing Perspectives
May 10, 2017
Links from YouTubers in the refugee diaspora.
Begging Pardon
November 21, 2016
Edward Snowden himself has never directly asked for a pardon. The former NSA contractor and CIA employee-turned-whistleblower maintains that he would be willing to return home from Moscow to be judged by a jury of his peers, and even serve time in prison, if there were a chance ...
Who Speaks for the Trees?
The untamed properties of nonhuman personhood, animal, vegetable, and corporate.
Our Friends who Live Across the Sea
A bronze, life-size male figure carrying a suitcase mounts a massive set of stairs to a jetliner that does not exist. He is slightly hunched, frozen mid-step. Whatever the statue was initially intended to signify, today it is a metaphor for the six thousand people who now ...
Against Activism
Almost a decade ago I attended a conference called “1968” at a nondescript college in New Jersey. Mark Rudd, a student radical turned community college math instructor living out his retirement in New Mexico, delivered the keynote. Taking the podium, he reflected critically ...
The Dads of Tech
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” Audre Lorde famously said, but let Clay Shirky mansplain. It “always struck me as a strange observation—even the metaphor isn’t true,” the tech consultant and bestselling author said at the New Yorker ...