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

Front Pages Online Social Movements

Chomsky After Epstein

Noam Chomsky's defense of Jeffrey Epstein echoes his campist foreign policy positions – both are a betrayal of the left

Alex Gendler

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

Front Pages Interviews Online

Economics as Social Provisioning

An interview with Tae-Hee Jo, leading heterodox economist and collaborator of Frederic S. Lee’s

The Editors and Tae-Hee Jo

Back Pages Online Reviews

Listen to Your Heart

After the Gaza genocide, Elia Suleiman’s 1996 classic film Chronicle of a Disappearance shows us how life can persist

Isabel Pabán Freed

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Nimble Conveyances

Conversations with Las Vegas magicians

Clement Gelly

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Indie Squeeze

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

Martin Dolan

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

How They Paid for the War

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

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

Wobbly Economics – Part I

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

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

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

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Price Pressures

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

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

Between Flood and Famine

In Mozambique, the green transition comes up against corruption and imperialism

Nationalists and Ethnic Minorities in Poland

What happens when great powers redraw the map?

Social Movements

Walking Zirgan

Turkish war crimes on Rojava’s front line

Casa Against Campesino

Libertarian socialists played a key role in the Mexican Revolution – and its betrayal

The Double Counterinsurgency

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

Culture, High & Low

Steamroomography

An annotated guide to gay cruising in New York City steam rooms

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

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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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