The Desert of the Virtual
The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems.
Spring 2025
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The South Has Got Something To Say
In recent books, Adolph L. Reed Jr. and Imani Perry offer divergent explanations of Southern inequality.
The Dawn of Austerity
An interview with Clara E. Mattei, the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
Feminists Against Authoritarianism
Minority rule is a major obstacle to ensuring abortion rights.
Drag Race to the Bottom
The so-called drag golden age is really a gilded age, where the runaway success of a few is made possible at the expense of the many.
Trapped by Empire
The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides.
The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife
In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.
How to Revive the Labor Movement
In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta argue for extending collective bargaining beyond the workplace.
“A Fundamental Violation of Basic Human Rights”
An interview with Loretta J. Ross.
Sex and the State
Paisley Currah’s Sex Is as Sex Does raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality.
Starving for Justice in Thailand
Two political prisoners arrested for questioning the Thai monarchy have been on a life-threatening hunger strike for over a week. The government has met their demands for the right to free expression with silence.
Reproductive Rights at the Bargaining Table
A roundtable on Dobbs and organized labor.
The Poetry of a Prison Uprising
A new book of poems from a workshop at Attica in the 1970s reveals how prisoners resisted the dehumanizing effects of incarceration.
Iran’s Cinema of Resistance
Independent filmmakers offer a vital portal into the struggle against the theocratic regime.
The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger
Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” state laws as the most promising avenue for establishing a federal ban on abortion. Much of the feminist left is ill-equipped to deal with this threat.
