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Vacuous Valor

Jasper Craven

March 16, 2021

On Madison Cawthorn’s muddled militarism.

Mass Hipgnosis

Rich Woodall

March 15, 2021

On the financialization of the music industry.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 12, 2021

“Have you ever wanted to control my life?”

Outside the Text

Andrew Marzoni

March 10, 2021

  A charming depressive with David Lynch hair and shirt collars unbuttoned to the nipple, Jackie “Jacques” Derrida was named after the child star of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid by middle-class Jewish parents in El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, in 1930. Thirty-seven ...

Cruel and Usual Punishment

Daniel Fernandez

March 09, 2021

Inhumane prison conditions run deeper than the pandemic.

Dancing on a Volcano

Ben Schwartz

March 04, 2021

Two films from 1938 tackle the French Revolution

Con Men in Tights

Jon Skolnik

March 02, 2021

On Robinhood’s misguided mission to “democratize finance.”

The Life and Death of the Dream Job

Raechel Anne Jolie

February 25, 2021

A new book by Sarah Jaffe reminds us that work is only a means to an end.

Everything Dies

Rebecca McCarthy

February 24, 2021

The end of Trump Plaza and the future of Atlantic City

All Roads Lead to Beijing

Matthew Shen Goodman

February 24, 2021

Chinese infrastructure policy and its Western thinkers.

A Bleak Future for Water

Ray Levy Uyeda

February 18, 2021

In California, climate change gives rise to a new commodity.

Checkmate

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

February 15, 2021

On the Democrats’ muddled stimulus strategy.