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The Pendulum of Queer History
July 06, 2023
The “arc” of queer history is more often a pendulum.
Glitter Gulch Global
It’s been twenty years since Las Vegas debuted “What happens here, stays here.” The slogan is a winking celebration of self-containment that has never quite been true. (Hence, perhaps, the marvelously redundant update three years ago: “What happens here, only happens ...
Drone Realism
July 03, 2023
You can’t tell a story about drones without additionally telling a surveillance story.
Canceling Equity
June 30, 2023
Who's afraid of promoting "equity" in public health?
The President is Arrested
June 29, 2023
Trump's shock troops gather in Miami, to see and be seen.
It’s Pat
June 28, 2023
How Pat Lynch remade the NYPD in his image.
Lorenza Mazzetti’s Kingdom for Children
June 27, 2023
The writer-director rejected the bourgeois adult world.
Daniel in the Lion’s Den
June 17, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg never let anyone off the hook easily—including himself.
Brains on Drugs
June 14, 2023
How consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.
Queer History Now!
June 07, 2023
A truly queer history means that all must be rendered strange.
Grieving Machines
June 06, 2023
AI is coming for the obituary pages.