Issue One

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The Editors ~ A Going Ontology

The Editors ~ Anarchist Supply Chains?

Steve Mann ~ Making Heads or Tails of Inflation

John Michael Colón & Steve Mann ~ Concerning Chartalism Pt 1 & 2

Jessica Gordon Nembhard & Susan R. Nembhard ~ The Black Coop Economy

Tawanda Mulalu ∙ Addison Winslow ∙ Mira Lazine ∙ Quinn Soutar

Kyle Flannery ~ Decolonize Board Games!

Mary Steffenhagen ~ Robert Evans, Gonzo Journalist

Joseph Grantham ~ Pharmacy Poems

Robin Eisgrau ~ Life at the Center of the Edge of 90s Music

Alexander Lin ~ Wesley Yang's Cringe Apocalypse

Elizabeth Sandifer ~ Triple Review: Cyberpunk

Jun Kuromiya ~ Barry Jenkins as Auteur

Recent Articles

Front Pages Online Social Movements

Casa Against Campesino

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

Kyle Flannery and John Michael Colón

The Mexican Revolution's biggest radicals were libertarian socialists. Their fate holds lessons for us today.

Back Pages Online Reporting

We Were All Palestinians, Weren’t We?

The view from Palestine on Israel’s new protest movement

James Jackson

Our reporter talks to Israelis and Palestinians alike, amid Israel's biggest-ever protests.

Front Pages Interviews Online

An Education in Freedom

We interview teachers at the Chicago Free School, where kids learn democracy by doing it

The Editors

A school on Chicago's South Side shows us what non-hierarchical education can look like.

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Inflation, Debt, & Planning

Front Pages Online

Sam Levey

How They Paid for the War

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

Front Pages Online Reporting

Alex Vuocolo

Price Pressures

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

Front Pages Online

Tim Di Muzio

Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation?

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

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John Michael Colón and Steve Mann

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

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Steve Mann

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Varn Vlog Deep Dive:

Alex Vuocolo discusses his recent reporting on pricing dynamics with Varn.

Profiles & Character Sketches

Back Pages Online Reviews

The Soul of Man Under Fascism

Reading Gramsci’s prison letters in an age of catastrophe

Benjamin Balthaser

Back Pages Online Reviews

Love as a Verb

An anarchist reads bell hooks

Pranay Somayajula

Back Pages Reviews

The Former Essayist

On the Decline of Wesley Yang

Alexander Lin

Back Pages Issue 1 Profiles Reporting

Buy Boltcutters!

Robert Evans and journalism as activism

Mary Steffenhagen

Back Pages Online Reviews

A Division of Labor

A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace

Kyle Flannery

No Such Thing as a Way Out

Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer portrays humanity at the end of history

Front Pages

Editorials Front Pages Issue 1

Words for our Present Reality

A Modest Proposal for a New and Living Ontology

The Editors

We need a new kind of thinking. It would involve a break from the absolutism with which we dress up our systems of thought. It would demand that we bring different communities of thinkers together – especially those who have been left on the margins – and get them talking to each other so that we can inch closer to a shared language and a usable history.

Socialism with an Anarchist Squint

Authoritarian creep, libertarian socialism, & democratic planning

Fast Cars and Fiat Money

MMT, from neglected theory to influential movement

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Futon

Lingua Franca

Ciudad de México | Mexico

Zapatista board games and gentrification in Mexico City.

40 Granite Street

Cambridge, MA | USA

The Book of Dreams, she called it, and in its subtitle: dedicated to Tawanda Mulalu.

Brezhnevitis

Brooklyn, NY | USA

Beware the brezhneviki. They know how to climb pyramids. Just don’t ask them to build one.

How To Prep

Lynchburg, VA | USA

Survival means mutual aid, not solo survivalism.

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Back Pages

Back Pages Issue 1 Reviews The Triple Review

Retro Shock

Cyberpunk within the Cyberpunk Dystopia

Elizabeth Sandifer

It’s probably a cliche to note that cyberpunk marked the point when science fiction finally looked up from its imperialist spaceship fantasies and realized the tech that would actually change the world was the computers running the spaceships.