Time Bandits
Our political past is rarely prologue.
From the Archives
Columns
Who Speaks for the Trees?
The untamed properties of nonhuman personhood, animal, vegetable, and corporate.
Withering on the Vine
A tale of two democracies.
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 Family Plot
On the domination of family clans.
Have Guns, Will Liberate
Inside the civic theology of arms-bearing.
The Revolution Will Probably Wear Mom Jeans
Never has a trend shown itself to be so openly contemptuous of the working class.
The Endlessly Examined Life
My mental health file whirs to life in 1969 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I’d recently left Opus Dei, the Catholic religious order to which I’d committed my young soul, and a major depression had followed. The records printed below are out of the mouths of my many caretakers; ...
The Vertically Integrated Rape Joke
The gonzo gambit of Vice Media.
Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich
May 2014
Why bother with mass appeal, when you’re rebuilding the ancien régime?
Networking into the Abyss
On SXSW.
The Alternative Press in Retrospect
On the disappearance of the alternative press.