Of Love and Politics
Michael Oakeshott's notebooks are a revelation.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The Philosophy of Ai Weiwei (From Andy Warhol and Back Again)
The exhibition "Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei" is a provocative pairing of two seemingly disparate artists that reveals their underlying similarities.
Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun’s Historic Senate Campaign
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn interviews Jeannie Morris about Carol Moseley Braun, the politics of race and gender today, and "Behind the Smile."
A Long, Complicated War
Brian Castner interviews Matt Gallagher, author of "Youngblood."
On Bureaucracy and the Left
A genuinely left-wing critique of bureaucracy is long overdue. But it's also a very difficult proposition.
A Very British Hatchet Job
"Fools, Frauds and Firebrands" is a reprise of Scruton's central intellectual effort to prove canonical left-wing academics either wrong or unscholarly.
Reportage Art from the Calais Jungle: “A Sea of Tents Surrounds Me”
As with the subjects of a courtroom sketch, the Jungle residents, being either refugee or migrant, are positioned as defendants.
On Algorithmic Communism
In demanding something like fully automated luxury communism, Srnicek and Williams are ultimately asserting the rights of humanity as a whole to share in the spoils of capitalism.
Reading the Middle East
How to satisfy both the Middle East mavens and the curious readers who are so intimidated by the history that they avoid books about the region altogether?
Oscar López Rivera and the Cabanillas
Oscar López Rivera is undeservedly the most obscure of American political prisoners.
Writing Is Not Terrorism, Mr. President
Writing is the tool I use to communicate, Mr. President, not the gun. I am throwing the gun you're trying to slip into my hand back to you.
The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene
David Palumbo-Liu interviews author and cultural critic Amitav Ghosh.
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