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The Future of Speech on Campus
Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.
The War on Hospitals
Israel’s attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.
Salvation Now
Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.
A Different Freedom
American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.
Instruments of Dehumanization
How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.
Seeing Genocide
Israel’s weaponization of images since October 7 obfuscates its genocidal campaign against Palestinians.
Democracy in the Real World
Theories of justice map what a good society should look like, but they generally offer few details about how to get there.
What Does It Mean to Be Free?
Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.
Can We Imagine a World Without Work?
The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.
Surviving a Wretched State
Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.
More than Genocide
The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.
Beneath the Razor Wire
Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.
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Chicano Frankenstein
How can you have thoughts without words? The man turned back to his coffee and drank. It was cold. Breakfast was done. Time to move on.
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