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Home/work
April 11, 2019
One of industrial capitalism’s gravest sins is the separation of work from home. Factories cleaved in two what was once a unified sphere, a place that you both created and inhabited, living relatively un-alienated amongst the fruits of your labor. Not that it was an equal ...
Psychic Healing at the End of History
April 10, 2019
On conspiracy and crisis, from the fall of the Soviet Union to today.
Busy Doing Nothing
April 08, 2019
Searching for a better way to resist the dictates of productivity
Fresh Hell
April 05, 2019
Finger-licking Good Beats
This Is Us
April 05, 2019
In Us, Jordan Peele’s evokes a long history of American violence—without naming its victims and beneficiaries.
Against the Statheads
April 04, 2019
Major League Baseball’s statistics revolution benefits the billionaire bosses most of all.
Stick to the Plan
April 03, 2019
Reclaiming central planning from the clutches of corporate America
Conventional Wisdom
April 03, 2019
Sally Rooney grapples with the tension between radical politics and the conventional pleasures of literature.
Campaigning Ourselves to Death
April 01, 2019
Prepare for the longest campaign season of your life.
Fresh Hell
March 29, 2019
In Justice We Trust; All Others Eat Shit
The Uses of Édouard Louis
March 29, 2019
In Who Killed My Father, Louis strikes back at those who have sought to co-opt his story.