Why Racists Lose Wars
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
Listen to Your Heart
After the Gaza genocide, Elia Suleiman’s 1996 classic film Chronicle of a Disappearance shows us how life can persist
The Hero as a Drifting Shadow
The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth
The Soul of Man Under Fascism
Reading Gramsci’s prison letters in an age of catastrophe
Our Neighbor From Hell
"May December" asks hard questions about what a community does with its monsters
The Absence of the Future
At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom
Consider the Dinosaur
Toward a philosophy of the asteroid
Dream City
Drifting through the city with Modiano and the Situationists
Indie Squeeze
An elegy for the indie games rennaissance — and prospects for the future
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