Issue Five

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Letters ~ Mason's Critique

John Michael Colón ~ Our Idiot Overlords

Kyle Flannery ~ America is at War – with DEI

Ben Wray ~ Gorilla Marketing

Sajad Hameed & Rehan Qayoom ~ Kashmir's Line of Control

Isabel Pabán Freed ∙ Sue Chehrenegar ∙ Corvus Arthur

Evan Lambert ∙ Selen Ozturk

Rose Novick & Zhuangzi ~ It's a Bird! It's a Fish! It's – Limitless!

Martin Dolan ~ The Death of Indie Games and the Rise of Friendslop

Kate Wagner ~ Architecture Biennale Post-Mortem

Clement Gelly ~ Prestidigitated Vegas

Stephanie Niu ~ Poetry: Glass & Sea Studies

Recent Online Articles

The Delaney Hill Detention Center with its pond in the foreground. Photograph by Seamus Kerivan.

Front Pages Online Social Movements

The Puddle at Delaney Hall

A night in the lives of volunteers at an ICE detention facility

Seamus Kerivan

Outside the ICE detention center in Newark, mutual aid workers struggle to keep families of the disappeared fed and informed.

Back Pages Interviews Online

An Interview with Jafar Panahi

Our correspondent met with the great Iranian director to get his thoughts on political cinema, what it means to go back behind the camera, and what gets lost in translation.

Edward Frumkin

Back Pages Online

Applying a New Foundation, Geopolitically

What the spread of East Asia’s beauty trends reveals about the region’s soft power influence.

Chinon Norteman

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Back Pages Issue 5 Reviews

Indie Squeeze

An elegy for the indie games rennaissance — and prospects for the future

Martin Dolan

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Bored Women

The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature

The Ballad of Glanton Dowdell

An excerpt from The Black Utopians

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The Absence of the Future

At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom

Kate Wagner

Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation?

Central bankers want to pull on one lever to lower prices; history shows this might raise them

Wobbly Economics – Part I

Why Frederic S Lee was the greatest economist you’ve never heard of

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

How They Paid for the War

Social democrats should fight climate change the way we fought the Axis Powers

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Editorials

What is the DOGE?

The debt, the DOGE, and the crisis of competence in an era of rising “national conservatism”

Can Technology Save Us?

The Left’s wires are crossed about technology. We hack away at the Gordian knot.

Reporting

Walking Zirgan

Turkish war crimes on Rojava’s front line

Social Movements

The Double Counterinsurgency

How an American tradition of popular sovereignty gave way to COINTELPRO with a ‘progressive’ face

The Native Freedom Struggle

An interview with Roberto Mendoza, a veteran of Indigenous people’s struggle for liberation in North America

The March of the Breeders

In Bulgaria, Sofia Pride is under siege from domestic reactionaries and DOGE cuts alike – but they’re fighting back

Culture, High & Low

In the Domain of the Unknown

From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.

Nimble Conveyances

Conversations with Las Vegas magicians

Clement Gelly

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

Editorials Front Pages Issue 5

What is the DOGE?

The debt, the DOGE, and the crisis of competence in an era of rising “national conservatism”

John Michael Colón

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the total loss of economic planning knowledge.

Why Racists Lose Wars

History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.

Border Economies, Broken Lives

In Kashmir, a chaos of trade, smuggling, and surveillance shapes the “cold peace” between India and Pakistan

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