The “New Antisemitism” and the Logic of Whiteness
Megan Wachspress argues that the relationship of leftist activists to their own whiteness is shaping the current wave of anti-Israeli campus protests....
Megan Wachspress argues that the relationship of leftist activists to their own whiteness is shaping the current wave of anti-Israeli campus protests....
Megan WachspressNov 29
Fear and Writing in Xinjiang: On Tahir Hamut Izgil’s “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide” and Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang.”...
Benno WeinerNov 28
Vanessa Wills argues that philosophical engagement is a necessary alternative to anti-intellectual nihilism and resurgent authoritarianism....
Vanessa WillsNov 27
Clevis Headley reviews George Yancy’s “Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future.”...
Clevis HeadleyNov 26
Jenna N. Hanchey reviews Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s “Drinking from Graveyard Wells.”...
Jenna N. HancheyNov 22
Yangyang Cheng reviews Joshua Kurlantzick’s “Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World” and Michael Berry’s “Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke.”...
Yangyang ChengNov 18
Mitchell Cohen explores the problematic afterlife of a foundational text of Western Marxism, .“History and Class Consciousness” by Georg Lukács....
Mitchell CohenNov 17
Jamie Peck reviews “The George Floyd Uprising” by Vortex Group....
Jamie PeckNov 6
Recent TV series have been imagining worlds without men. What does this absence make possible? asks Elizabeth Alsop....
Elizabeth AlsopNov 3
Spencer J. Weinreich reviews Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.”...
Spencer J. WeinreichOct 28
Chris Yogerst reviews Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided.”...
Chris YogerstOct 26
Arundhati Roy accepts the Charles Veillon Foundation’s 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement....
Arundhati RoyOct 21
Deborah Coen pushes back against one part of Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate” by arguing that what constitutes “success” is a matter of who is part of the scientific conversation (and who is not)—and thus a matter of standpoint....
Deborah R. CoenOct 17
Alessandro Camon discusses the role storytelling played in the success of the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike in Hollywood....
Alessandro CamonOct 15
Rahul Sagar examines Aurelian Craiutu’s “Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals.”...
Rahul SagarOct 12
Susan Neiman responds to Samuel Clowes Huneke’s review of her book “Left Is Not Woke,” and he answers back....
Samuel Clowes HunekeOct 8
Jeffrey C. Isaac reviews Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future”...
Jeffrey C. IsaacOct 7
Kate Tsurkan interviews Khrystia Vengryniuk....
Kate TsurkanOct 6
Tyler McBrien reviews Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.”...
Tyler McBrienOct 3
What does the future hold for US–China relations, and what does it mean to be realistic about that future?...
Jonathan KirshnerOct 2
Does nostalgia for the old East Berlin come from a deeper longing for socialism?...
Matthew LongoOct 1
Johanna Isaacson reviews Abigail Susik’s anthology “Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964–1967.”...
Johanna IsaacsonSep 30
Salem James Martinez reviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “Chain-Gang All-Stars.”...
Salem James MartinezSep 29
Andrew Koppelman reviews Stephen Vladeck’s “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.”...
Andrew KoppelmanSep 27