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

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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.

Back Pages Issue 5 Poetry

Recent Online Articles

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

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

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

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

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

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

Price Pressures

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

Wobbly Economics – Part I

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

Editorials

Can Technology Save Us?

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

Socialism with an Anarchist Squint

Authoritarian creep, libertarian socialism, & democratic planning

Reporting

We Were All Palestinians, Weren’t We?

The view from Palestine on Israel’s new protest movement

Social Movements

My McUnion

A fast-food worker learns unionization tactics while working to organize their restaurant

Contra Contra

What does it mean to actually want power?

Walking Zirgan

Turkish war crimes on Rojava’s front line

Culture, High & Low

Love in the Age of Cronenberg

Only now is the world ready for the queer, kinky idea of love in David Cronenberg's films

Dream City

Drifting through the city with Modiano and the Situationists

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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