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The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

Lara Norgaard on Translating Cris Judar’s They Marched Under the Sun

By Lara Norgaard | July 24, 2026

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”

By Rebecca Solnit | July 23, 2026

For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

Kōhei Saitō on the Myth of Free Market Solutions to Climate Change

By Kohei Saito | July 23, 2026

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

A Conversation With Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell

By Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell | July 23, 2026

How Jean-Paul Sartre Attempted to Marry Marxism and Existentialism

How Jean-Paul Sartre Attempted to Marry Marxism and Existentialism

Emily Eakin Explores New Developments in French Thought After World War II

By Emily Eakin | July 21, 2026

There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel

There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel

Steven W. Thrasher on Anti-Zionism in American politics

By Steven W. Thrasher | July 20, 2026

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Why Can’t the Public Sector Pick Up Our Trash?

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