A Political History of the NFL Jersey
The evolution of the professional football jersey tracks that of racial capitalism, technology, and empire
Bored Women
The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature
Why Racists Lose Wars
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
Figure and Frame
Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal
Egypt’s Season of Starlets
In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries
We Were All Palestinians, Weren’t We?
The view from Palestine on Israel’s new protest movement
A Division of Labor
A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace
