The Small-Business Smokescreen
January 24, 2024
Unraveling the fantasy of self-employment.
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More Fog, More War
January 23, 2024
America is at war in Yemen.
What Are Intellectuals Good For?
January 22, 2024
All we have is a voice.
Far Right, En Marche
January 19, 2024
France’s far right, led by Marine Le Pen, is on the march.
Self and Simulation
January 18, 2024
What defines reality, and why should we live there?
Only Connect
January 17, 2024
Sigrid Nunez’s pandemic novel.
Sick and Tired
January 16, 2024
Attachment to the ideal of resilience only maintains a world which demands it.
Molly Sussman
I felt the feeling and did nothing.
Rebels with a Cause
January 10, 2024
Sagas of populist political celebrity.
Universal Failure
January 04, 2024
The long afterlife of Universal Camouflage Pattern.
Go Straight to Jail
January 03, 2024
The jail is increasingly the catchall “solution” to every social problem.
Low, Dishonest Days
December 29, 2023
It’s been over two months since Israel launched a genocidal incursion against the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas’s surprise attack of October 7. In that time, hospitals, churches, schools, refugee camps, mosques, and residential blocks have been bombed with abandon, ...