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From the Editors: Racist Logic
By examining the opioid crisis alongside the War on Drugs Murch brings an otherwise familiar story into new territory.
Quantifying Love
Reputational currency, like China’s Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.
What Anti-Semitism Is—And What It Is Not
Two Jewish activists discuss the place of anti-Semitism in contemporary movements for social justice.
Racist Logic
The spring issue tackles how racist thinking can be found in surprising—and often overlooked—places. From the origins of the opioid epidemic to the global surrogacy industry, contributors not only explore the institutional structures that profit from black suffering, but also point the way to racial justice. PREORDER TODAY.
The End of the End of History
What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?
Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy
Business school heroes succeeded because they manipulated corporate law, not because of personal brilliance.
The Death and Life of the Jewish Century
The resurgence of anti-Semitism today is not a quirk of Donald Trump. It has deep roots in powerful institutions.
Banking on the Cold War
The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
Succeeding While Black
Michelle Obama’s memoir reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment.
Democracy Without God
Martin Hägglund argues that only atheists are truly committed to improving our world. But people of faith and socialists have more in common than he thinks.
Economics After Neoliberalism
Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive.
Finally Seeing Andrea
A collection of Andrea Dworkin’s writings reintroduces the radical feminist to the next generation.
Two-State Head, One-State Heart
For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.
Teachers with Guns
What happens when a school district votes to arm teachers? A Rust Belt educator on the grim realities of training to kill one of his own students.
Dystopia Is Everywhere
Hye-young Pyun’s surreal, violent novels reject stereotypes about Korean women’s writing, taking up global themes of environmental collapse and the loneliness of city life.
The Rawlsian Diagnosis of Donald Trump
Does Trump’s success vindicate or undermine liberal theory?
Poland’s Forgotten Bohemian War Hero
From the bisexual demimonde of prewar Paris to investigating Soviet war crimes, Józef Czapski’s life encapsulates the extremes of twentieth-century Europe.
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