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The Dehumanizing Politics of Likability
Teow Lim Goh explores the traumas, injustices, and dehumanizing cruelty embedded in the culture and politics of likability.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
The Humanities in the Age of Loneliness
"Save the planet, read a book." Robert Newman on how to prevent the Eremocene.
Red Summer 1919/2019: The 100th Anniversary of a Current Crisis
In the age of Trump, Americans have conveniently forgotten their long history of white supremacist violence.
Inventing the Environment
Carolyn Taratko reviews two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”
Sally Rooney: The Dark Side
Sally Rooney is trying to tell us something. Politics are in the forefront, but I’m guessing there is a dark secret lurking in the background.
What the Left Can Learn from the Right About Winning Elections
Louis Rolsky reviews Reece Peck’s “Fox Populism,” which considers the intersections between conservatism, populism, and mass media.
Normalnost
Peter Pomerantsev, author of “This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality,” looks at the new normal in the era of Putin and Trump.
Henry A. Giroux and the Culture of Neoliberal Fascism
Christian Fuchs reviews "The Terror of the Unforeseen," a new book by Henry A. Giroux.
Armed and Dangerous: Does Technology Make for Better Policing?
Gabriel Nicholas interrogates “The End of Killing” by Rick Smith and “Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing” by Matt Stroud.
Reading “The Armies of the Night” in an Age of Youth Protest
What Norman Mailer’s 1968 antiwar classic has to say about the amorphousness of contemporary protest.
Bongo Explosion: The Rebellious Dimension of Latin Music
Ilan Stavans and Alex Nava discuss the rhythmic, political, and spiritual dimensions of Latin American music.
Prosecutorial Indiscretion: A Conversation with Emily Bazelon
Emily Bazelon discusses her new book, “Charged,” and the scandal of mass incarceration.
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