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An interview with physician Victor Roy on his newly released book Capitalizing a Cure

April 17, 2023 • by Victor Roy and Emma Pirnay

Emma Pirnay interviews Victor Roy about his newly released book, Capitalizing a Cure and uncovering the capitalized pharmaceutical industry....

Democracy

Are Universities Bad for Democracy?

We need a revolution, not only against how we train students to think but also, “more importantly, against what we, as humans, ultimately are.”

April 12, 2023 • by Benjamin P. Davis

Business schools obviously train students to see the world in terms of commodities. But what about the rest of the university? ...

Democracy

Anthropocentrism and Democracy in Planetary Times

It is time to rethink political regimes in non-anthropocentric terms

April 12, 2023 • by Rafi Youatt

The way forward for our planet and democracy are to acknowledge nature’s own, different political modalities, by recognizing what I’ve elsewhere called interspecies politics. ...

Democracy

The phrase “liberal democracy” has degenerated into an ideological cliché

April 12, 2023 • by John Keane

Democracy is not an all-knowing and arrogant Ideology. It is its antidote. ...

Democracy

A response to John Keane

April 11, 2023 • by James Miller

Does democracy offer any kind of solution, however partial, to ecological challenges that are inherently global, not just national, never mind local?...

Democracy

Is Europe’s Democracy in Crisis?

Europe’s democracy is in a good place, but technological changes are challenging it

April 10, 2023 • by Filip Kostelka

Democracy is currently not in crisis and, in fact, we live in one of its best times....

Democracy

How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow

“The troubling truth is that democracy can be destroyed in multiple ways, in different tempos”

April 10, 2023 • by John Keane

Things are serious: the “great democratic revolution“ of modern times, as Tocqueville once called it, appears to be spluttering to a halt....

North America

The People of New York vs. Donald J. Trump

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 19

April 5, 2023 • by Claire Potter

The Former Guy put out a call for his supporters to protest his indictment: this is who showed up...

The People of New York vs. Donald J. Trump

Rats: A Cautionary Tail

Why do rats matter?

April 5, 2023 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Rats continue to bear witness, and the close quarters of our shared history, as well as our many assassination attempts (on their bodies and on their characters), have surely sharpened rats’ noses to the whiff of human hypocrisy....

Literature

Year of the Rat

An excerpt from Marc Anthony Richardson’s experimental novel

April 5, 2023 • by Marc Anthony Richardson

... it had a semi-prehensile tail that nearly snaked a forearm like an opossum’s or a cat’s, but it was a gargantuan rat’s ......

Rats: A Cautionary Tail

Report from the Rat Academy

Human New Yorkers learn about pest control in Rat Academy. Why should we assume local rodents are any less organized?

April 5, 2023 • by Radhika Subramaniam

A report from the Rat Academy about the learning, discourse, and fellowship in the actions of daily life as a rat....

Rats: A Cautionary Tail

Hitchhikers and Stowaways

“Infection” describes the properties of settler knowledge and settler memory more than it does the properties of rats

April 4, 2023 • by Anna Boswell

In the event of European intervention in the Pacific, the introduction of northern-world rats was more likely to happen than not. ...

Essays

When Medicine Turns Capital

An interview with physician Victor Roy on his newly released book Capitalizing a Cure

Are Universities Bad for Democracy?

We need a revolution, not only against how we train students to think but also, “more importantly, against what we, as humans, ultimately are.”

Anthropocentrism and Democracy in Planetary Times

It is time to rethink political regimes in non-anthropocentric terms

People Power?

The phrase “liberal democracy” has degenerated into an ideological cliché

Bloodless Democracy?

A response to John Keane

Is Europe’s Democracy in Crisis?

Europe’s democracy is in a good place, but technological changes are challenging it

How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow

“The troubling truth is that democracy can be destroyed in multiple ways, in different tempos”

The People of New York vs. Donald J. Trump

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 19

Sex Life of a Vector

Why do rats matter?

Year of the Rat

An excerpt from Marc Anthony Richardson’s experimental novel

Report from the Rat Academy

Human New Yorkers learn about pest control in Rat Academy. Why should we assume local rodents are any less organized?

Hitchhikers and Stowaways

“Infection” describes the properties of settler knowledge and settler memory more than it does the properties of rats

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