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Whose University Is It Anyway?
Can higher education be saved from the all-administrative university?
Economics and Finance
Everything Mall Is New Again
“The citizen in a mall-city assumes submission as a constant pose: there is nowhere else.” Krithika Varagur on the malls of Jakarta.
The Neoliberal Feminist Subject
How neoliberalism is co-opting and undermining feminism.
Is Government a Protection Racket? How Wheat and Taxes Built the Ancient States
The foundation of the state isn’t warfare; it’s actually the tribute that a strongman would demand from your garden.
The Time of Finance
Neoliberal policy embraced the idea that the concern with fundamental values was of little use. What mattered was keeping the system going.
Et in Arcadia Ego
How did René Descartes produce "cheap lives"? John W. W. Zeiser on "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things."
Permanent Precarity for American Millennials
Reece Rogers is rallied by “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials” by Malcolm Harris.
The Engineers and the Political System
In a way that was never the case for previous generations, engineering today is politics, and politics engineering.
The Trouble with Big Science
Jim Kozubek on the potential problems of profiteering in biotech.
Postcards from the Edge: The Voices of Hard Times in Today’s United States
A new anthology doesn’t quite explain Trump’s rise, but it does shed light on a persistent American problem.
“What Do You Want Me to Regret?”: An Interview with François Ewald
Johannes Boehme talks with François Ewald about his early years as a Maoist, his relationship with Foucault, and his embrace of the insurance industry.
A Stigma Rooted in Denial: On Ageism and “Aging Thoughtfully”
A review of Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore’s “Aging Thoughtfully.”
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