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Still Arab
Reflections on the 10th anniversary of the Arab uprisings: language, identity, and the politics of despair.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The Great White Reunion: On Duncan Bell’s “Dreamworlds of Race”
Could the separation of the Revolutionary War have been patched in the late 19th century? Some powerful men tried.
The Disappointed
How the visionary pessimists Robert Stone and Nathanael West foresaw the Capitol insurrection.
Free Speech and the Question of Race
Stephen Rohde looks at three recent books on the First Amendment.
Letter to the Editor: Clifford Thompson Responds to Joel Rhone
Clifford Thompson and Joel Rhone exchange letters to the editor in response to Rhone’s review of Thompson’s “What It Is.”
This Unhallowed Ground
Winthrop Rodgers travels to Kurdistan’s historic battlefields and reflects on our relationship to these conflict zones.
A Premature Eulogy for Privacy
Evan Selinger vehemently argues against the tenets of Firmin DeBrabander’s “Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society.”
The Anatomy of the LSD Romance in the 1970s: On Errol Morris’s “My Psychedelic Love Story”
James Penner analyzes the life and times of Joanna Harcourt-Smith and Errol Morris’s recent film about her, “My Psychedelic Love Story.”
A Combustible Compound: On Paul Hanebrink’s “A Specter Haunting Europe” and Elissa Bemporad’s “Legacy of Blood”
On “A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism” and “Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets.”
Beyond Bias: The Case for an Abolitionist Psychology
Implicit bias training does not curb racism in police departments. And yet the fantasy persists that this is the way to address antiblack police violence.
“MLK/FBI” and “Her Socialist Smile” Desanitize Two Radical Icons
Eileen G’Sell compares two documentaries about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Helen Keller, both of whom had radical politics that have been whitewashed.
Harlem’s Hero Revisited
Peniel E. Joseph reviews the new biography of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, "The Dead Are Arising."
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