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In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing

A. S. Hamrah

April 22, 2021

ANOTHER ROUND If you can accept Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed high school history teacher in the suburbs, maybe you will also believe that his beautiful doctor wife (Maria Bonnevie) would take him back after he makes drinking on the job the guiding principle of his life. Thomas ...

The Fruit of Power

James Wham

April 21, 2021

Raoul Peck unspools Western history in a new documentary on colonialism and genocide

Must Love Bogs

Sami Emory

April 20, 2021

Conserving peatlands is a cheap climate change win. So why’s it such a hard sell?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

April 16, 2021

In God We Trust, All Others Get Book Deals

Armed and Dangerous

Rafia Zakaria

April 16, 2021

Alienated

An afternoon of terror when detained by a corrupt Indiana cop.

The Necromancer’s Driver

Reuben Dendinger

April 16, 2021

Fiction

A new short story by Reuben Dendinger.

Who Owns Vaccines?

Ann Neumann

April 15, 2021

IP-hoarding will prolong the pandemic

The Social Beast

Wen Stephenson

April 14, 2021

On the anti-totalitarianism of Simone Weil.

A Theory of Thorstein Veblen

Bruce Robbins

April 12, 2021

A new biography challenges the Veblen’s image as an academic misfit.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

April 10, 2021

And They Told You Diamonds Were Forever Instead of exchanging wedding rings, one recently married San Fransisco couple sent non-fungible tokens to each other’s digital wallets mid-ceremony. The marriage was further sanctified by an Ethereum smart contract. Both man and wife ...

Awful but Lawful

Rafia Zakaria

April 09, 2021

Alienated

In the Derek Chauvin trial, racist histories go unchallenged in the courtroom.

The Health Care Crucible

John Merrick

April 08, 2021

In the ruins of industry, a new sector rises.