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The Poet Is Present | Zoë Hitzig
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Ryan Ruby offers a vision of the poet as not only thoroughly alive but extraordinarily relevant: poets do R&D.
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Beautiful Plan of Your Future | Ed Park
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Unpublished work by living authors has a simpler status, removed from the din of literary executors and divided acolytes.
on Dec 16
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Inside Spotify’s emotional surveillance-driven quest for total ad domination.
on Dec 15
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Kicking an Open Door | Bruce Robbins
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In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank asks: What was the twentieth-century novel?
on Dec 15
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I Wanna Be Your Dog | J.W. McCormack
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McGruff the Crime Dog was complicit with the war on drugs.
on Dec 8
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Yo-de-lay-hee-hoo | Michael Lipkin
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No one ever lost money betting against the end of history.
on Dec 7
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Sofar Sounds is a data-driven simulacrum: a performance of what it might be like to be at a house show, intimate in a way meant only for Instagram.
on Dec 5
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During the acute phase of the pandemic, it was easy to get on—and stay on—Medicaid. But then the “unwinding” began.
on Dec 4
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Waiting at Anchor | Laleh Khalili
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Seafarers have little redress against shipowners who leave their crews in limbo at sea.
on Dec 1
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The Consultant Con | Max Kiefel
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Democrats need to dump the consultants and rebuild the party—from the bottom up.
on Nov 30
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Our Lady of Complicity | Laurie Penny
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At times, Ivanka Trump’s <em>Women Who Work</em> reads like the panicked screams of a machine attaining sentience.
on Nov 26
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Insofar as Palantir is a cult like Scientology, Impro is its Dianetics. To become a great Palantirian you have to leave your prior self behind.
on Nov 25
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What We Do Is Secret | Adele M. Stan
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One needn’t be an ardent conspiracy theorist to behold the larger currents of moneyed impunity directing American affairs of state in the Trump era.
on Nov 23
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A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis | Apoorva Tadepalli
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“Quarterlife” is a sweeping document of the country’s transformation after the election of Narendra Modi.
on Nov 21
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Across the country, mask bans are being pitched as a solution to crime and discrimination. But they put everyone at risk.
on Nov 21
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Serpents and Doves | George Scialabba
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The controversial lay Catholic society Opus Dei is hypersensitive to bad publicity. They’re going to hate Gareth Gore’s new book.
on Nov 17
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The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
on Nov 15
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Ghosts in the Mirror | Stephen Piccarella
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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine a new novel.
on Nov 13
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Despair Fatigue | David Graeber
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Is it possible to become bored with hopelessness? There is reason to believe something like that is beginning to happen in Great Britain.
on Nov 13
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Illegitimate Concerns? | Kevin Okoth
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In Germany and the UK, topics once considered far-right by much of the electorate are being reframed as “legitimate concerns” of average middle-class citizens.
on Nov 11
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Line in the Sand | Kate Wagner
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Saudi Arabia is building a dystopian city of the future in the desert. A crop of prestigious architecture firms have signed up to help make it a reality.
on Nov 7
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This exchange is from a conversation in Paris between David Graeber and Thomas Piketty, discoursing on the deep shit we’re all in and what we might do about climbing out. It was held at the École…
on Nov 1
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The Therapist in the Machine | Jess McAllen
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The latest mental health care disruptors seek to sideline humans altogether. Enter: the AI therapy bot.
on Oct 31
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Jan Valtin, The Man Who Wasn’t There | Colin Asher
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In “Out of the Night,” Jan Valtin grows from a child engaged in minor acts of sabotage to strike organizer, partisan thug, propagandist, spy, and a broken man.
on Oct 21
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Bringing Up Babies | Nina Pasquini
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IVF in the United States is widely supported and very common. It has antiabortion conservatives in a tizzy.
on Oct 18
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“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.
on Oct 18
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The McNutter Brothers | Michael Bible
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They had to be killed before all hell broke loose. Before they ripped asunder the very fabric of society.
on Oct 16
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The Failure of Liberal Zionism | David Klion
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Israel has behaved exactly as its harshest critics predicted.
on Oct 9
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A Rupture in Time | Sarah Aziza
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One year into the genocide in Gaza, Palestinian resistance continues to deny Israel the horizon of complete control.
on Oct 8
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Weighing the Price of Safety in OSHA’s New Video Game
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In recent years, one of the most fertile markets for gaming technology has been training and education, with games being used to train people in everything from scooping ice cream to running disaster…
on Sep 28
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All That Twitters | Jacob Silverman
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It takes a lot of cash to prop up the broligarch Elon Musk—and some of it comes from unsavory sources.
on Sep 26
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Elevate Me Later | John Semley
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Elevated horror’s recourse to “the real” diminishes the genre’s power, which has always fed the fear of the unreal. Horror’s ability to terrify is its art.
on Sep 24
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Tenants Rise Up | Oksana Mironova
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Where should the tenants’ rights movement go from here? Two organizers are calling for the abolition of rent.
on Sep 24
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Woman of Steel | Taylor Michael
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In the art of LaToya Ruby Frazier, the worker comes first. The same can’t be said for the museum that hosted a recent retrospective of her work.
on Sep 18
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Gimmicks of Future Past | Sean Tatol
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A doctrinaire insistence that art must concern itself with the past or the future is beside the point.
on Sep 17
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“Ancient trees, humble origins—that’s what keeps me up at night, Chuck.”
on Sep 14
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The Vance brand of toxic maleness is an order of magnitude different than the usual GOP fuckery to which we’re accustomed.
on Sep 12
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A Foot in the Door | Theodore McCombs
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Is the Catholic Church is finally coming around on homosexuality?
on Sep 10
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War Machine Learning | Rebecca McCarthy
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The future is being designed on campus at the University of Pennsylvania. It may be lethal.
on Sep 9
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Noise Pollution | Amanda Moore
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During the DNC, a menagerie of right-wing misfits and career grifters descended on Chicago, hoping to sow discord and confusion.
on Sep 6
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Alternatives for Germany | Michael Lipkin
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If the German press could once embrace the narrative that a resurgent far right was a statistical phantom, that myth has now been put to bed.
on Sep 5
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The White Man, Unburdened | Quinn Slobodian & Stuart Schrader
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It was in Thailand that Charles Murray formulated his ideas on small government, community, and the good life.
on Sep 2
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The Fracture of Good Order | Arvin Alaigh
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It’s never a fair fight when the institutions that determine the acceptable bounds of dissent are the same ones conducting or enabling mass slaughter.
on Aug 30
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Blame the Computer | Corey Pein
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Even more than “military intelligence,” computer science is an oxymoron.
on Aug 27
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The Total Package | Britt H. Young
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Silicone penises are life-giving not simply because of the things you can do with them but for the people you can become with their help.
on Aug 23
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Race to the Bottom | Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
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The country’s lurch into a profoundly unearned consensus of colorblind self-congratulation enabled the elevation of Donald Trump.
on Aug 12
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Courting Disaster | Max B. Sawicky
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Under Justice John Roberts, the barn door to minority rule is wide open.
on Aug 9
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Permanent Crisis | Zachary Siegel
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American drug policy is stuck—mired in disproven and outdated modes of thinking.
on Aug 2
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A Partial History of Alarms | Nelson Smith
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The history of property and theft is a large subject, more or less the history of humankind.
on Aug 2
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The Composer Has No Clothes | Jeffrey Arlo Brown
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The composer Tristan Foison was a plagiarizing fabulist. His brief success reveals the rot at the heart of the classical music industry.
on Aug 2