Brain AWOL
August 18, 2017
On the end—and endurance—of the Bannon era
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Weekly Bafflements
August 18, 2017
Man, what a terrible week. Just an unrelenting deluge of morally bankrupt people parroting stupid opinions. Usually we round up a few good and funny things we read this week but honestly, everything is so fucking bad right now. So, here are some statues that are better than ...
After a Tragedy, the Ohio State Fair Endures
The fair—at the city, county, or state level—is one of the markers of summer, even long, difficult summers, and even if the fairs themselves occur in the fall. I have been to many: A small town fair in Virginia, the kind you see in nostalgia-drenched films where people in ...
Toppling Monuments to White Supremacy
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...
Dunce’s App
August 17, 2017
Behavior management apps are, in many ways, a culmination of B.F. Skinner's vision for “teaching machines.”
Fire and Fury
Corey Pein receives a report from Jason Wilson in Charlottesville, and speaks to Tim Shorrock about North Korea.
Control-Alt-Fail
“Both sides do it” is a species of magical thinking perpetrated by those with a deep institutional investment in upholding status-quo power relations.
The Commons Are Rumbling
Most people in their communities already recognize both the problem and the solution.
A Letter to my Liberal Friends
It should not have taken this long. Right now, there are a lot of well-meaning people, people who desperately want to believe in their own goodness, who only opened their eyes to the reality of modern fascism when the world woke up to Nurembergian images of screaming white boys ...
Goodbye, Pepe
August 15, 2017
The alt-right era my book was about—the anonymous online trolling culture, the constant evasions and ironic styles—is over.
Mind Out of Time
The work of Urdu writer Naiyer Masud depicts a world of fading aristocrats and the drifting poor.
Thwarting a “United Right” in Charlottesville
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...