5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (593+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship You reading this book, who are you? What is your face like, your hands holding the pages, the child forsaken in you, who now looks through your eyes at mine? "Muriel Rukeyser, The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (343+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship What gets lost in this telling is how both the prude and the sex magician (for this is what Craddock became) sought the redemption of the white race. Well-intentioned but defensive stories that…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (281+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship When Rishi's boss, Eric, asks how he is positioned in the days leading up to the government's emergency budget announcement, Rishi responds: "I am long sterling." He has bet that the value of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (535+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship The unchecked executive power commanding masked border agents in Chicago, Minneapolis, and rural communities across the US has been decades in the making. In 1986, a secret memo leaked an "Alien Terrorists and Undesirables…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (335+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship In the early 1990s, both Republicans and Democrats rushed to prove who in US politics could be "tougher" on crime. Such bipartisan rhetoric echoed the fascist obsession with "purity" and "social order." At the…...

4+ week, 15+ hour ago  (219+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship This new reality feels like a dystopian fiction, but examples of cruelty toward immigrants and their families are quickly becoming the norm. And though the current Trump regime is driving this destruction, the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (618+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship This is not the first time capitalist elites have deployed antimigrant racism to defend their interests. The prototype of fascists allied with big capital was a century ago, with the smashing of the…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (235+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship What precedes the unprecedented? In these cities and others, the police and the military are executing a campaign of mass deportation, which not only launches tear gas and pepper bullets against journalists, pastors,…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1729+ words) Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship The Uncomfortable Lightness of Dark Academia I first learned about Zoe B. Wallbrook's debut novel, History Lessons, from a promotional email a few weeks after it came out. Its blurb's opening line…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1122+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship There is a formula in sitcoms. As explicit as in French court poetry or Shakespearean romances, the sitcom expects the restoration of order. In a sitcom, the desire shifts and changes the bodies…...