Video games, like any creative product, reflect and refract the conditions of their production. Today, what they most resemble is twenty-first-century work.
Summer 2021
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Arguments on the Left: Elections and Coalitions
Four short essays by Jeet Heer, Samuel Moyn, Jane McAlevey, and Mitchell Cohen.
Know Your Enemy: The Afterlife of January 6
Was the January 6 breaching of the Capitol a genuine coup attempt by an extra-parliamentary faction of the Trump movement? Or was it a disorganized and pathetic act of desperation?
Digital Corbynism
In the UK, the left no longer has a party, but it may still have the tools necessary for retaking it—tools that can be improved, remodeled, and reorganized.
Belabored: Critical Race Panic in Schools, with Jesse Hagopian
A new right-wing campaign to ban “critical race theory” aims to crack down on teachers who teach honestly about racism. How can teachers protect themselves and their students?
Culture War in the Classroom
It is time for educators to go on the offensive against the conservative campaign to ban “critical race theory” from schools.
Arguments on the Left: Free Speech
Five short essays by Brian Morton, K-Sue Park, Katha Pollitt, Natasha Lennard, and Asad Haider.
Redlining, Race, and the Color of Money
Redlining maps document the deep history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market.
How a Campus Protest Galvanized the Turkish Opposition
The Turkish government’s crackdown on protests at Boğaziçi University earlier this year has brought together the broadest coalition of AKP opponents since the 2013 Gezi Park protests.
The Afghanistan Evacuation
The Biden administration announced that it will accelerate plans to relocate Afghans who worked with the U.S. military. Their situation demands the most urgent response possible.
A Friend to the Dissidents
The late Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal said his style was a “defense against politics.” But by collecting and describing the debris of life, he made the everyday seem mythic and earned the affection of the dissident movement.
Borrowed Time
In Wong Kar Wai’s movies, nostalgia is the characters’ constant state. In 2046, a sense of imminent loss gives the director’s vision an edge of defiance.
Pyramids Everywhere
American media blamed the massive collapse of Albanian pyramid schemes in 1997 on greedy small-time investors unschooled in the free market. It could never happen here.
