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Gender & Sexuality Politics

The Indiana Backlash

Ever since the Indiana legislature passed its version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, lawmakers there have been on the defensive.

  • Simon Waxman
Law Politics

A Tale of Two Immigration Judgements

Federal courts have been busy scrutinizing the government’s handling of immigration.

  • Louis Fisher
Arts in Society

Microreview: Olena Kalytiak Davis, The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems

  • Jeanine Deibel
Arts in Society

Building a Joke

  • David Hernandez
Class & Inequality Politics

Cuba’s Long Memory

What to expect from the renewed relations.

  • Alan West-Duran
Arts in Society

The Sweet and Angry Music of Amiri Baraka

On SOS: Poems, 1961­–2013.

  • William J. Harris

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Arts in Society

Cold Comfort

Three new books thread feminist impulses through narratives of precarity and desolation.

  • Natalie Shapero
Arts in Society

How to Bring Your Children to America

  • Hafizah Geter
Politics Race

Protesting Too Much

The trouble with Black Power revisionism.

  • Randall L. Kennedy
Arts in Society

from The Enmeshments

  • Jorie Graham
Arts in Society

The Server

  • Justin Phillip Reed
Arts in Society

Microreview: TJ Jarrett, Zion

  • Heather Treseler
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Damian Rogers

Introduced by Hoa Nguyen

  • Damian Rogers
Arts in Society

Curves and Intimations of a Great Disease

  • David Kutz-Marks
Arts in Society

Winter Troll

  • Ann Lauterbach
Politics

Learning from Obama’s Campaign

Han and McKenna have written a history of the Obama campaign in which the candidate himself has little more than a cameo.

  • Andrew Mayersohn
Philosophy

The End

The politics of American apocalypse.

  • Meghan O’Gieblyn
Arts in Society

Microreview: CAConrad, Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness

  • Charles Legere
Class & Inequality

Building the Natural Market

Smithian ideas about natural political laws and natural human reason thrived long beyond the Revolution.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

Unruly Thoughts

Kimiko Hahn's Brain Fever

  • Benjamin Landry
Arts in Society Philosophy

Crisis of Man? Lighten Up

“What should be the starting point for twenty-first-century thought?”

  • Kevin Mattson
Arts in Society

Against Type

Broad City is a platonic “romance between two friends” who happen to be women.

  • Lucy McKeon
Arts in Society Race

From Jim-Crow to “Color-Blind” Poetics

Race and the So-Called Avant-Garde

  • Dorothy Wang
Arts in Society Race

Response to Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde

The aestheticization of the term avant-garde is a refusal to think what the alienation of human being in the modern era was made of.

  • David Marriott
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