Politics

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

A Torrent of Punk, Techno, and Radical Art
The Chaos Computer Club has been central to hacktivism's transition in Berlin from a little-known subculture into a powerful and highly visible arm of the city's activist left.
Jane CavalierMay 15, 2015
- Politics
Writing While Muslim: The Freedom to Be Offended
Why am I told that by opposing the free speech award, I fail to prove myself as the "good" Muslim, vocally secular and eager to clap hard for Charlie Hebdo?
Rafia ZakariaMay 8, 2015
- Politics
“A Rather Pathetic Play”: On Public Shaming and the Cult of Censorship
One need not be consumed with the lofty and the sublime, nor the lowly and the savage, to take a few lessons from Wilde on public shaming.
Stuart WhatleyMay 4, 2015
- Politics
Reflections on the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM) 50 Years Later
UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement, 50 years on.
Richard HertzbergApr 25, 2015
- Politics
Back to the Next Great Recession
Eichengreen's main point about the Great Recession is well taken: we ought to stop patting ourselves on the back and take a much harder look at what we got wrong.
Jonathan KirshnerApr 23, 2015
- Politics
Diving into the Wreck
The explosion of cash-for-gold shops is part of a bigger neoliberal crisis.
Eric FrithApr 16, 2015
- Politics
Manic Pixie Drone War
Grayson Clary reviews "A Theory of the Drone" by Grégoire Chamayou.
Grayson ClaryApr 14, 2015
- Politics
Invest Yourself (Against the Limited Liability Society)
Born an American shareholder.
Stuart WhatleyMar 15, 2015
- Politics
European (Union) Nihilism
Syriza’s election in Greece signals a response to the European Union’s latent nihilism — one that Nietzsche and Heidegger both foresaw.
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago ZabalaMar 6, 2015
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
Secular Stagnation, Then and Now
Larry Summers’s “secular stagnation” proposal has deep roots in Alvin Hansen economics.
Tom StreithorstMar 5, 2015
- Politics
The Magic of the Invisible Middle Finger
Under classic imperialism and colonialism, metropolitan countries owned their colonies. Under globalization, they rent them.
Gordon FellmanMar 4, 2015
- Politics
“Smashing Fascist Heads”: Jazra Khaleed on Political and Poetic Crisis in Greece
"Aside from being important as an act of memoralization, poetry is a weapon."
Max RitvoMar 1, 2015
- Poetry
- Politics