“Knowledge of history can never tell us exactly what to think or do in a given situation; it only offers a richer reservoir of possibilities to think about.” - Paul W. Schroeder on the analogy between the beginning of the Great War and the events of September 11, 2001.
"If we do not hate the internet, what we detest is its capture, enclosure and transformation by Big Tech’s nexus of billionaire oligarchs and finance capitalists." - Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni
On the 177th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, read Tariq Ali's introduction to the Verso edition of the monumental text.
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On February 3, 2025, Michael Burawoy was tragically killed in a hit-and-run. Zachary Levenson remembers his teacher and reflects on his intellectual generosity and political commitment.
Sita Balani examines the regulation of white women’s sexuality in the British colonies.
"It is mostly through intimate relationships that we reproduce ourselves emotionally, and that we create our sense of authentic subjectivity. But these relationships are often in themselves a source of pain and frustration." - Alva Gotby
"The home is often not a space of refuge." — Alva Gotby
What would it mean to theorise love as a form of labour? How can we think of our emotional dependency on other people in political terms, rather than as expressions of individual and interior subjectivity?
"There comes a time when every old student must decide whether or not to renew their driver’s license" — Mike Davis