Therapy With a Human Face
The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach.
Spring 2025
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We Loved Each Other Too Much
In Sally Rooney’s latest novel, class struggle is presented as just one more thing to be debated.
Maybe We Could Be Each Other’s Moms
The core spirit of Sex Education, easily missed on account of its boisterous sex-positivity, is the sophisticated sexual prudence of Generation Z.
Can We Democratize AI?
Artificial intelligence has often been adopted in ways that reinforce exploitation and domination. But that doesn’t mean we should greet all new AI tools with refusal.
Feminists on All Sides
Desire is shaped by social assumptions and prejudices, Amia Srinivasan argues in The Right to Sex. So what does one do about it?
China’s Market Reformers
While China is often seen as an outlier from neoliberal trends, its transformation in recent decades was not at odds with tectonic shifts in the global system of growth but an essential part of it.
How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America
The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration that are still with us today.
Permission to Imagine
A new collection of Stuart Hall’s writing offers a guide to the limits of representation in building anti-racist politics.
Lessons for Courtiers
The results of the 2020 Democratic primaries suggest the limits of a left strategy for power starting at, rather than building toward, the presidency.
A Shared Language Lost
The Netanyahus captures a time before American and Israeli Jews underwent a great fissure.
Escape from Adjunct Hell
Academia once seemed to provide an escape from capitalism. Two new novels question the very concept of refuge itself.
Toward a Just Food System
A vision of a food system reliant on small family farmers producing local food ignores the necessity of addressing major problems at scale.
The Art of Obstruction
A new art project uses the legal system of mineral rights as a means to block oil and gas extraction.
Solutions for Democratic Decay
A clear understanding of democracy’s first principles makes it easier to assess threats to the system.
Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything
Adam Curtis’s latest film paints a picture of the world that is so complex, so dense, and so theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.
