White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream
Contemporary gun violence is not so much terrorism as tradition. It is deeply intertwined with the white supremacist foundations of the United States.
Why Does the Media Defend Drone Operators?
We don’t need to hear a pilot’s perspective.
A Philosophy of Philosophers
New translations of Wittgenstein, Bachmann, and more in today’s reading list.
Do Laws Criminalizing Sex Work Violate the Constitution?
New writing on sex in today’s reading list.
Our Best Film Writing for Oscars Weekend
From Hollywood hits to cult classics.
Where Egalitarianism Went Wrong
—and what it still has to offer. A reading list on equality, Rawls, and the struggle for a more just world.
Are Harvard’s Admissions Practices Racist?
–and other questions, as the controversial case is set to go before the Supreme Court.
Revisiting the Revolution
A reading list featuring historians on the American Revolution.
Reviving the Radical King
“Forget the dream, he called for a revolution.” An MLK Day reading list on how his radicalism was erased.
Five Years without Cedric Robinson
A collection of our best essays on the distinguished political theorist, racial capitalism, and the Black radical tradition.
Poetry Collection: Belonging
The first in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month.
Gun Control Laws Could Soon be Rolled Back
A new case heads to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
How Cyberespionage Became Just Another Office Job
“People won’t think too deeply about it because they’re making good money and working in a nice office all day.”
Saving the News
More than twenty years of writing on our news crisis.
How the Far Right Learned to Love Multilingualism
—and other essays on the use and abuse of language, from Chomsky to Duolingo.
How We Think About Science and Conspiraces
A reading list.
How Not to Fix Our Housing Crisis
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the perils of Black homeownership, and other essays from our archive in today’s reading list.
20 Years of the War on Terror
“9/11 unleashed a particularly virulent strain of the impulse to believe that some among us are less than human.”
Haiti and Afghanistan
How U.S. intervention devastated both.
Coltrane. Monk. Aretha.
A Black music reading list.
Flying Saucers
A reading list on stars, space, and more.
Abolition Isn’t Only About Police
We also need to abolish prisons—as well as put an end to counterterrorism. An abolitionist reading list.
Philosophies of Sports Fandom
A slam dunk reading list on all things sports.
Food for Thought
Our best essays on food and eating from the past forty-six years! From a food anthropologist’s early love affair with Chinese cuisine to the farmers’ protests in India, the pieces in this list consider food from political, cultural, and economic perspectives.
