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Online Christian Martyrs

Peter Manseau

January 12, 2022

Evangelicals proclaim “choose life,” while embracing a fake martyrdom.

Vegan Nation

Jordan G. Teicher

January 10, 2022

Israel’s status as a “vegan nation” sits uneasily alongside the state’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians.

The Replacements

Rithika Ramamurthy

January 05, 2022

Amber Husain’s Replace Me turns the cultural logic of capitalism on its head.

Build Back Baffler

The Baffler

December 31, 2021

The Baffler looks back in anger at 2021.

Burdened by Books

Robert Zaretsky

December 21, 2021

Teaching the Great Books today means confronting futility and absurdity.

Yesterday’s Men

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

December 16, 2021

Cold War liberalism, what is it good for?

The Battle over Memory at El Mozote

Nelson Rauda

December 15, 2021

The El Mozote massacre’s survivors have been fighting for justice for forty years.

Southeast Asia’s Forgotten Revolutionaries

Bryony Lau

December 14, 2021

On transnational futures that never came to pass.

Spoiling for a Fight

Tom Stevenson

December 07, 2021

American analysts wildly exaggerate the “Chinese Threat.”

Passing for Racial Democracy

Stephanie Reist

December 06, 2021

The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil.

The Tyranny of the Task

Josh Gabert-Doyon

November 29, 2021

With “microwork,” good old-fashioned piecework gets a digital makeover.

Fun, Games, and Extractivism

Dolly Church

November 24, 2021

Fossil fuels have a new recruitment strategy: Minecraft