Myth and Identity in a Divided Britain: An Interview with James Meek
Francis Wade interviews James Meek, whose latest collection of essays, “Dreams of Leaving and Remaining,” explores the causes and consequences of Brexit....
Power Moves Through People: An Interview with Nick Estes
An American Indian activist links the Standing Rock protests with other mass protest movements....
A Deeper South
A road trip through the Old South reveals uncomfortable family truths....
The Necessity of Being Judgmental: On “k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher”
"k-punk" is a primer in how to write cultural criticism today. If it is a catastrophe that we no longer have Mark Fisher, we at least have this collection....
The Hundred Years’ War Over Free Speech
"The Free Speech Century" is a rich buffet of intellectual delicacies, which need not be gorged in one sitting but can be enjoyably sampled at leisure....
Why Would You Want to Be German?
A new anthology of essays by new Jewish migrants to Germany teems with an odd feeling: patriotism....
The Last of the Unicorns: Facebook and the Fight for a Better Future
Siva Vaidhyanathan's "Antisocial Media" paints a bleak picture of Facebook's impact, but are its policy prescriptions enough?...
Beyond Samarkand
A dictatorship loosens its grip and a lot of bad memories come tumbling out....
Bigger Than the USSR: A Conversation with Nick Srnicek, Author of “Platform Capitalism”
Tobias Haberkorn asks Nick Srnicek about his recent book, “Platform Capitalism,” monopolies, and planned economies....
A Justice for All Seasons
Stephen Rohde delivers a speech on the judicial legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
Notes of an Undocumented Son
Sara Campos reviews Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas new memoir, "Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen."...
Thinking About the What-Ifs: A Conversation with Robin Marty About “Handbook for a Post-Roe America”
Eleanor J. Bader speaks to Robin Marty, author of “Handbook for a Post-Roe America.”...
