The Thou of Zadie Smith
February 06, 2018
In Feel Free, Zadie Smith's first nonfiction collection, the author courts the paradox of infinite subjects.
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Surveillance Valley
February 06, 2018
If the Internet is truly such a revolutionary break from the past, why are companies like Google in bed with cops and spies?
Faster, Higher, Stronger, More Harmonious
February 05, 2018
If sports are capable of “building a peaceful and better world,” they are just as likely to make people act like idiots.
The Reboot of the Elites
Ardent neoliberals tend to come into their own political convictions much as Joseph Kennedy III has: as a matter of class inheritance.
Fresh Hell
February 02, 2018
From Tween to Tycoon and You Can, Too!
Dream big and learn fast coos Teen Bo$$, the latest in required reading for tweens and teens baptized in the entrepreneurial waters of the free market and ready to build a personal brand. Brought into the world last summer and targeting the ...
Dreams Deferred
February 02, 2018
To be young, gay, and undocumented in Alabama is to understand that "deferred action" means your freedoms are on hold.
State of the Unions
February 01, 2018
Don't trust any argument that rests more on the feelings of workers than on the massive power imbalance gifted to employers.
Simulacra, Inc.
“Disneyfication” used to mean sanitization and infantilization. Now, Disney comes to represent nothing less than the smooth functioning of media capitalism.
Communicator Breakdown
January 31, 2018
Trump’s fledgling State of the Union deliberately sought to conceal a multitude of sins.
Kitchen-Sink Drama
Help! I would like to salvage this garbage fire of a relationship, but I need his mom out of my fridge and out of my life.
Cradle to Grave
January 30, 2018
Like abortion, the lack of action on maternal mortality is connected to ideology. Under capitalism, a woman’s body is a means of production like any other.
The Reaching-Out Industry
January 30, 2018
A whole new cottage industry has popped up seeking a more earnest, direct conversation, begging Trump voters to sit down and explain: how exactly did we get this way?