“An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty.”
politics
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
“Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.”
Politics After Literacy
“Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.”
The Myth of the Police State
“No one, not even the supposed beneficiaries, is protected.”
‘This Is Not a Peaceful Protest!’
“A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.”
Filthy Matters
“Calvin Gimpelevich writes on the history and politics of public bathrooms.”
Maybe Don’t Talk to the ‘New York Times’ About Zohran Mamdani
“The former chair of the Africana Studies department at Bowdoin College would prefer not to.”
The Kremlin Put Her on Trial. She Stole the Show.
“Why did the Russian state go after an experimental theatre director?”
