Jeff Sparrow

The invasion of Iraq resulted in hundreds of thousands—perhaps even a million—people losing their lives. How can one attempt to justify so much killing? Enter Clint Eastwood’s new film American Sniper. Early in the movie, Chris Kyle’s father breaks life down for his ...

Dystopian visions of a cold and emotionless future: so hot right now. In a bizarre commercial that, following criticism, has been pulled from circulation, luxury developer Redrow London boasted that its fashionable apartments would transport buyers into a totalitarian ...

Reflecting on his brutal interrogation by the Gestapo, the Austrian essayist Jean Améry described torture as a psychic annihilation, an experience that obliterated the social world. In his book At the Mind’s Limits, he argued that humans took for granted an assumption that ...

“Wasn’t that the most incredible single you ever heard?” asked Apple CEO Tim Cook as the last note of The Edge’s guitar died away. He was playing U2’s new single “The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)” to the audience at the end of a press conference this month for the new ...