• Politics

    Democracy

    Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

    “The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”

     
    By Judith Butler  February 20, 2025
    The Hub

    If Trump can’t kill you, he wants to hurt you.

    By James Folta  February 19, 2025
    Trans Rights

    In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 19, 2025
    In Conversation

    Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

    By Aaron Robertson  February 19, 2025
    Feminism

    Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

    By Haley Mlotek  February 18, 2025
    Feminism

    How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

    By Sophie Lewis  February 18, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    In Conversation

    Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 18, 2025
    Anti-Blackness

    How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

    By Chad Sanders  February 14, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

    By Rob Spillman  February 13, 2025
    Democracy

    How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

    Katherine Stewart on the Internal Contradictions of the Current American Antidemocratic Movement

    By Katherine Stewart  February 20, 2025
    The Hub

    How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

    By James Folta  February 12, 2025
    Gaza

    Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

    By Nicki Kattoura  February 12, 2025
    Inequality

    The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

    By Eve L. Ewing  February 12, 2025
    craft advice

    From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

    “Fiction offers us a way of looking at people’s interior and interconnected lives that... holds space for contradiction.”

    By Alejandro Heredia  February 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Late capitalism got you down? Join this (free!) Fredric Jameson study group.

    By Brittany Allen  February 11, 2025
    Nationalism

    How the Horrors of the 20th Century Shaped the Ongoing Moral Catastrophe in Gaza

    By Pankaj Mishra  February 11, 2025
    Gaza

    Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

    By Hanna Phifer  February 11, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Truth and Reconciliation:
    Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

    Lauren Francis-Sharma Recommends Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, J. M. Coetzee, Mohale Mashigo, and More

    By Lauren Francis-Sharma  February 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Gird your loins. We’re about to get a lot of really bad, state-sponsored art.

    By Brittany Allen  February 10, 2025
    The Hub

    Israeli police raided Palestinian-owned bookstores in Jerusalem and arrested the owners.

    By James Folta  February 10, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read if you’re finally ready to loud quit your job.

    By Brittany Allen  February 10, 2025
    Gaza

    Invitation to a Die-In: Reflections on the MLA Walk Out for Palestine

    ”Whereas, international law experts, including UN officials, describe the Israeli war on Gaza as a genocide...”

    By Hannah Manshel  February 10, 2025
    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    The Hub

    How librarians saved the day in World War II.

    By Brittany Allen  February 6, 2025
    Haiti

    Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

    By Rich Benjamin  February 13, 2025
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