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Trick Clock
December 05, 2024
On the job with a seasonal migrant worker.
University of Hindutva
December 04, 2024
Hindu supremacist organizations are coming for American college campuses.
Yo-de-lay-hee-hoo
November 27, 2024
“I had always lived in dreams, among the ghosts of language.”
No Ordinary Joe
November 26, 2024
In his selected letters, Joe Brainard reveals the human behind the saint.
The Consultant Con
November 25, 2024
The Democrats are a business masquerading as a party.
Be a Woman Once, Oh Lord!
I am a prisoner of a soul whose doors and windows are shut.
Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare
November 21, 2024
Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism is a conscious throwback to Cold War liberalism.
Masks Off
November 20, 2024
The push to criminalize face coverings puts everyone at risk.
A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis
November 19, 2024
Fictionalizing the Modi era.
Look Who’s Talking
November 18, 2024
All that separates us from enlightenment is a few more rounds of VC funding.
Incendiary Kites
November 13, 2024
We’ve no shortage of proof.