Economics as Social Provisioning
An interview with Tae-Hee Jo, leading heterodox economist and collaborator of Frederic S. Lee’s
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.
Contra Contra
What does it mean to actually want power?
Listen to Your Heart
After the Gaza genocide, Elia Suleiman’s 1996 classic film Chronicle of a Disappearance shows us how life can persist
Applying a New Foundation, Geopolitically
What the spread of East Asia’s beauty trends reveals about the region’s soft power influence.
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
The Puddle at Delaney Hall
A night in the lives of volunteers at an ICE detention facility
The March of the Breeders
In Bulgaria, Sofia Pride is under siege from domestic reactionaries and DOGE cuts alike – but they’re fighting back
A Political History of the NFL Jersey
The evolution of the professional football jersey tracks that of racial capitalism, technology, and empire
