Essays
Education, Reduced
“Me! Me! Me! Me! Don’t you ever get tired of thinking about your dull, greedy, small self?” — Dave to…
White Supremacy, White Insecurity, and the Struggle for a More Egalitarian Social Order
The purpose of law is to produce different results in the real world than would obtain in the absence of…
Donald Trump and the Afrikaners
US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about white Afrikaners draws on older patterns in American conservative politics, but it also marks…
Demystifying Epstein
I was a 16-year-old virgin when Jeffrey Epstein first raped me. I was naive and gullible. He was a pillar…
The Legacy of Jürgen Habermas
Habermas’s Legacy: The Philosophy of the Public Sphere
The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas died on Saturday March 14th, 2026, aged 96. With his passing the public lose a…
Habermas’s Case for Democracy: the Public Sphere, Communicative Reason and the ‘Co-originality’ of Public and Private Autonomy
Jürgen Habermas, one of the most influential philosophers of the last half-century, died last March at the age of 96. …
Jürgen Habermas’s Image of the United States as a Model of “Modernity”: From Attachment to Melancholy
“it is evident that melancholia too may be the reaction to the loss of a loved object. […] one can…
Allen Ginsberg's Centennial
Book Reviews
Cynthia Miller-Idriss’ Man-Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism
This is definitely the right book at the right time. The straightforward style covers many of the best known cases…
Peter Richardson’s Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine
Peter Richardson has given us a sharp, concise history of Rolling Stone, since its beginnings. When Ralph Gleason and Jann…
George Lundskow and Lauren Langman’s Visions of a Sane Society
Lauren Langman and George Lundskow’s new book, Visions of a Sane Society: Fromm and Critical Theory for a Free, Democratic,…
Joseph Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York
It is difficult, even now, to grasp how many revolutions—artistic, political or economic—exploded during the 1910s and how thoroughly they…
Jeremy Varon’s Our Grief is Not a Cry for War
With the US interventions from Iran to Venezuela, Jeremy Varon’s Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement…
Latest Issue
2026: Vol. 25, No. 1
Latest Issue
2026: Vol. 25, No. 1
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