In the Vicinity of Genius

Gratitude and Forbearance: On Christopher Lasch (2011)

The User Always Loses

The Promise of Freedom: Orlando Patterson’s Modern World

Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters’ Phones in Portland - Homeland Security has not yet come clean to the public about the full extent of its intelligence operations in Portland.

Don't Trust Mark Zuckerberg to Put Out the Fires He Started

Strange Rhythms: On Rosemary Mayer’s 1971 diary

What Truths Can You Divine from Instagram Paintings?

Three artists on the future of the gallery system

The US military is using online gaming to recruit teens

The U.S. Military Is Monitoring Protests in Seven States

The Worldly Exile: Edward Said’s Life and Afterlives

The Circle: Franz Boas and the Origins of American Anthropology

The Collective Body: Russian experiments in life after death

Reading Richard Rorty in Tehran

Vexed and Troubled Englishmen

A Horror Story: How Private Equity Vampires Are Killing Everything

The Soul of the Republic: Equality’s Vexed Meaning in Gilded Age America

The Voice of Casablanca

A Burnt-Out Case (2006)

What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica

Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders

Running the Arctic’s Alt-Weekly Newspaper

Bruno Schulz’s Dream Worlds

Liberal America’s Single-Family Hypocrisy

More Than 90% of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies

Rediscovering Nelson Algren

Eyewitness to a Revolution

In America's Panopticon

The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s Moral Crusade

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