Politics

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

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
Utopia and Its Discontents
On the Charlie Hebdo murders, the future of Europe, the Ukraine, capitalism, and the West.
Slawomir SierakowskiFeb 23, 2015
- Philosophy & Religion
- Politics
Between the Pen and the Protest
On Marie Gottschalk, race, poverty, and welfare in the United States.
Stephen LurieFeb 4, 2015
- Law
- Politics
Pathology of the Carceral State
Crime and Punishment: Is it too late to control the carceral state? Michael Meranze on Marie Gottschalk’s "commanding and disturbing" new book.
Michael MeranzeFeb 4, 2015
- Politics
Avant Charlie: Flemming Rose and The Danish Cartoon Crisis
Flemming Rose’s "The Tyranny of Silence" is a subtly crafted and self-effacing investigation of the Danish Cartoon Crisis and the debates about free speech that surfaced in its wake.
Morten Høi JensenJan 30, 2015
- Politics
The Trauma Hero: From Wilfred Owen to “Redeployment” and “American Sniper”
“Yet when the trauma hero myth is taken as representing the ultimate truth of more than a decade of global aggression, as in it does in American Sniper, we allow the psychological suffering endured by those we sent to kill for us displace and erase the innocents killed in our name. As in Klay’s story, the real victims of American political violence disappear under a load of shit.”
Roy ScrantonJan 25, 2015
The Art of Critique: Victor Serge’s “Midnight in the Century”
“Personalism” combines the radical libertarian belief in the importance of the individual with the communist belief in the importance of the entire community. Victor Serge was its greatest champion.
Guy Patrick CunninghamJan 24, 2015
- History
- Politics
Auden, Rabelais, and “Charlie Hebdo”
W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” once again offers not just words of comfort, but clues on how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Nina MartyrisJan 21, 2015
- Poetry
- Politics
A Guide to Federal Surrealism: Fiction and the American Intelligence Community
As the CIA continues to grow and publish reports on its own activities, it has developed a style all its own. Federal Surrealism.
Grayson ClaryJan 17, 2015
- Politics
Forgive My Father, For He Has Sinned
On the poetic struggle of two familial, and familiar, figures of speech
Ava KofmanJan 11, 2015