Listen to Your Heart
After the Gaza genocide, Elia Suleiman’s 1996 classic film Chronicle of a Disappearance shows us how life can persist
Our Neighbor From Hell
"May December" asks hard questions about what a community does with its monsters
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.
A Political History of the NFL Jersey
The evolution of the professional football jersey tracks that of racial capitalism, technology, and empire
Well That Doesn’t Sound Like Fun
On boredom, board games, and Debord
Bloodless Board Games, Covert Colonialisms
On the imperial gaze in tabletop gaming
Why Racists Lose Wars
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
