Unions in Space
September 26, 2017
Tacoma is a thoughtful take on trade unionism that doesn’t cast it as a relic of a bygone age.
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Yesterday’s Liberal
Is it the bad politics or the bad writing that makes Mark Lilla's new book so grating?
Weekly Bafflements
September 22, 2017
“Can jokes bring down governments?”
For Frieze, our own Jonathon Sturgeon wrote about the failures of protest art under Trump. “The election of Donald Trump was a traumatic event, but it does not justify protest art that bears the precise legibility and perishability of ...
Stormbound
September 22, 2017
Never in fifty years of living in the Sunshine State had they seen anything like Irma.
Swords Into Marketshare
September 21, 2017
What if we had an LGBT movement that centered on getting trans people—and everyone else—out of prison, instead of into the military?
The Fatberg Cometh
On September 4, Princess Catherine announced her third child. It took eight days. By September 12, a titanic fatberg had been found under London.
Total Attention Deficit
You've reached attention span zero? Log off, take a breath, and read a printed object.
The Jihadist Personal Essay
The personal essay survives, it has simply moved house. Its new and surprising habitat is the jihadist magazine.
The Past Is a Foreign Agent
September 19, 2017
The maestro of spy fiction mourns our geopolitical malaise.
A Wonk on the Wild Side
Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" is less a campaign postmortem than a wonk’s lament.
Weekly Bafflements
September 15, 2017
Steve Bannon loves two things: racism and layering.
An Uneven Disaster
September 15, 2017
A Q&A with Ashley Dawson, author of "Extreme Cities."