Politics

Columns

Everyone’s a Critic

John Merrick

August 25, 2022

A radical tradition of cultural critique is at risk of extinction.

Hell, or Catalonia

Adrian Nathan West

August 24, 2022

Catalan separatism under the microscope.

Ailing Empire Blues

Jed Esty

August 18, 2022

Can America avoid Britain’s post-imperial fate of never-ending culture war?

Digital Deconversion

Scout Brobst

August 17, 2022

Becoming an ex-Jehovah’s Witness, online.

The Sounds of Internment

Jack Sheehan

August 16, 2022

“Smash Internment and Injustice!” turns fifty.

Public Safety Dance

Wanda Bertram

August 11, 2022

Public “safety” for whom?

Poxed and Abandoned

Benjamin Weil

August 10, 2022

On the global response to the monkeypox outbreak.

Flooding in the Sacrifice Zone

Tarence Ray

August 09, 2022

Surveying the wreckage in flooded-out Eastern Kentucky.

Excavating the Internet

David Schurman Wallace

August 08, 2022

Studying the internet’s pre-history is interesting—but can it help us in the present?

Hard to Be a God

Joshua Craze

August 04, 2022

A new history of deification suggests that political power is always mythological.

Big Beefing

John Kazior

August 01, 2022

Delusions of bovine sustainability.

Who Profits?

Justin H. Vassallo

July 25, 2022

How nonprofits became vehicles for programs shaped and approved by capital.