After the War on Cancer
March 23, 2023
Modern cancer treatment brings less stigma but higher cost.
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The Stranger Within
The exile in the language of the colonizer.
Honduran Hydra
March 21, 2023
The fight against open-pit mining in Honduras.
Fresh Hell
March 17, 2023
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
After the fanatical persecution of Oliver Cromwell, the great famine of 1845, and Margaret Thatcher’s horrific treatment of the Sinn Féin martyrs, Ireland has finally won a reprieve: the archdioces of Philidelphia, Trenton, and Wilmington have ...
The Ghost at the Feast
March 16, 2023
On Susan Taubes, Jacob Taubes, and the limits of literary biography.
Red Scared
March 15, 2023
We went to the Victims of Communism Museum so you don’t have to.
Morbid Symptoms
March 14, 2023
On the monstrous archetypes of British political critique.
Fresh Hell
March 10, 2023
Shilling Me Softly
Celebrities: they’re just like us, finagling a 1990s career in radio-friendly hip hop into a second vocation meeting shady Chinese operatives at the Four Seasons to negotiate the release of American captives, only to be targeted by the FBI and linked to ...
Women’s Equality—When?
Global gender parity may be more than a century away.
Riding the Goddamn Elephant
March 09, 2023
You're all going to hell.
Drinking from the Original Fountain
Suleiman Al-Bustani brings Homer into Arabic.
Heavenly Bodies
March 07, 2023
Residents of a dying planet dream of immortality in space.