Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our actions.
A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we ...
Francis Wade is a London-based journalist covering political violence, identity, borders, and displacement. He is author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim Other.
It is this attempt to think anew that I will refer to as their “Benjaminian moment.” Put succinctly: Arendt as well as Adorno ...
Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion Naomi Braine Verso, $24.95 (paper) Like many women at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2024 Biennial, I ...
I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah ...
In an influential essay on what he called “post-fascism,” the late Romanian-Hungarian philosopher G. M. Tamás took aim at a new phenomenon overtaking capitalist democracies. “Everywhere there is a ...
A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.
The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He ...