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Canada is burning, parts of North America are being blanketed by smoke, and the Mountain Valley Pipeline was just approved in Biden's debt ceiling deal. We encourage you to read How to Blow Up a Pipeline if you haven't already.
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Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’
The Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg discusses the historical method of microhistory, of which he is an eminent representative, and some themes and concepts of his work.
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No War But Class War
We must renew our understanding of our class belonging and of how we go to war – because that is the only way we are going to win. -
We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie?
Bosie became a footnote in the story: an embodiment of ‘evil twink energy’, a poisoned apple whose path through life left a wake of destruction that led to the great hero’s downfall. -
Quick Fixes: A Letter from the Editor
"Beneath the bright descriptions, interesting contradictions and energetic prose, lurks an impressive materialist account of drugs and American capitalism." -
The Nightmare and Dream of Autonomous Policing
Despite a wave of criticism, both the NYPD and LAPD have moved forward with plans to implement Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicles – more commonly referred to as "Robot Police Dogs" – into their departments' fleets. In this excerpt from After Black Lives Matter, Cedric G. Johnson breaks down the implications of such a move. -
A Response to Clover and Singh
Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr. share their response to Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh's "Revelation's Edge", regarding No Politics but Class Politics. -
Queer as Folk, The New Labour project, and Sexual Modernity
Queer As Folk functions as a prescient parable for New Labour’s political philosophy.
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If we ‘do not dream of labor’, what do we dream of?
Admitting that what we hold dear is not outside of the grasp of the system we revile is not admitting defeat; it is accurately assessing the conditions so that we might fight back.
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After Work: a Letter from the Editor
"Study after study over the last century has confirmed again and again: technology has not reduced the amount of time spent on domestic labour in the home. How can that be true?"
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Inventing Sexuality: Ben Miller & Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Ben Miller and Amardeep Singh Dhillon join Eleanor Penny to explore the historical complexities of same-sex desire and gender deviance.
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We're So Glad It's You
As Adolph Reed wrote in 2014, liberals don't believe in politics anymore, only bearing witness to suffering. Here, former US diplomat Josef Burton asks what the moral universe of contemporary liberalism consists of when all hope for change is foreclosed.