Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a ...

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author ...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

In my New Jersey hometown, herons and kingfishers inhabit the wetlands of a Superfund site irremediably contaminated by chemical dyes and pesticides released by my father’s employer for decades. Even ...

The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips. Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory ...

“Serious scholars” ought to generate a “fair-minded account” of what makes “America” unique and exceptional, propose Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, two researchers from the Progressive Policy ...

These iconic moments reveal how deeply football and politics shape each other in Argentina. The interplay between politics and football is examined in two recent books, which explore how Argentine ...

“The money runs out but the title remains.…” observed the original head of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, adding: “Once a Guggenheim fellow, always a Guggenheim fellow.” 1 Beyond the ...

William Lafi Youmans, JD, PhD is an Associate Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. He co-directed a documentary film about Alex Odeh, a Palestinian American activist who was ...

The aging history professor—his beard graying, his posture slouching—parks his 1997 Honda and walks to his office at Johns Hopkins. Along the way he passes two giant glass cubes that, for the last ...