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Labor
Who Gets to Retire?
October 17, 2024
Teresa Ghilarducci
Reviews
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Emma Minor
Labor
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Lina Moe
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Emily Nussbaum Is Getting Realer Than Real
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Hannah Berman
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Labor
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Phyllis Jeffrey
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Film
La Chimera
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Taylor Stout
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Latest
Labor
Who Gets to Retire?
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Teresa Ghilarducci
Reviews
Becca Rothfeld’s Essays in Praise of Excess
October 17, 2024
Emma Minor
Labor
Low-Paid Industries Rely on Gig Workers. Are They Actually Employees?
October 16, 2024
Lina Moe
Reviews
Emily Nussbaum Is Getting Realer Than Real
October 15, 2024
Hannah Berman
Podcast
Dancing in Purgatory With Devon Walker-Figueroa
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When We Lose, We Win
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Before Kamala, There Was Shyamala
September 23, 2024
Picturing Asian America
September 6, 2024
Philip Metres’s Nostalgia
July 2, 2024
The Ten-Dollar Founding Father
June 5, 2024
Typewriter Combat
May 23, 2024
The Arts
The Arts
Camille Bordas’s Latest Novel Follows Comedians on the Hunt for Material
September 20, 2024
Emma Minor
Literature
Art and Wartime in Ann Hood’s
The Stolen Child
May 13, 2024
Ann Hood
and
Emma Minor
Interview
A Love Affair Without Sex?
May 2, 2024
Mitchell Abidor
and
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The Arts
Mitski’s Notes of Yearning
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Miranda Young
Reviews
A Band on the Brink of Collapse
April 9, 2024
Emma Minor
Labor
Capitalism
Biden’s Green Protectionism
September 16, 2024
Yannis Bougiatiotis
Labor
People Do Not Live with Indignity Forever
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Annelise Orleck
Labor
The Orchids That Bloom in the Dark
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Annelise Orleck
technology
Welcome to the Chip Wars
September 15, 2021
Pat Garofalo
Journalism
Branding Myself
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Hannah Hightman
Economy
Economy
Social Capitalism
September 17, 2024
Anna Pick
and
Mark Setterfield
Economy
Is Finance a “Parasite”?
June 25, 2024
Scott Aquanno
,
Stephen Maher
and
Anna Pick
Economy
From “Boring” to “Roaring” Banking
April 29, 2024
Anna Pick
Economy
Statistics as a Form of Knowledge
March 1, 2023
Quentin Bruneau
Economy
Why We Should Worry about Inequality
January 11, 2023
David Lay Williams
Israel/Palestine
Israel/Palestine
Notes on Jonathan Glazer’s
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Mariam Matar
Israel/Palestine
Israel Has Weaponized Trauma. Should We Talk About It?
June 20, 2024
Jordan Osserman
Israel/Palestine
Slow Torture in Gaza
June 18, 2024
Austin Tannenbaum
Israel/Palestine
Palestine and the Subversion of International Law
June 17, 2024
Widad Tamimi
Israel/Palestine
Columbia University’s “Crisis”
May 3, 2024
Adam Tooze
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Reviews
Shakespeare’s Ultimate Crip Text
September 10, 2024
Antoinette Burton
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The Furies Reconsidered
June 3, 2024
Gregory Laski
Reviews
A Band on the Brink of Collapse
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Emma Minor
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The Hunger Artist
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Josephine Houman
Reviews
Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?
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Henry Tonks
Philosophy
Literature
The Sword Is Mightier Than the Pen
October 2, 2024
Margaret Atwood
and
Aaron James Wendland
Ukraine
Thinking in Dark Times: Life, Death, and Social Solidarity
September 30, 2024
Aaron James Wendland
and
Volodymyr Yermolenko
Ukraine
Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine
September 30, 2024
Timothy Snyder
Philosophy
Simon Critchley on the Most Important Philosophical Book of the Twentieth Century
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Simon Critchley
and
Megan Robinson
The Left
Ideology After Marxism
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Alex Rossen