An interview with a Palestinian American author on how to keep writing when poets aren’t allowed to say the word “genocide.” ...

Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l’étude du “portrait parlé” (1909)| Alphonse Bertillon / The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

In an influential 1992 essay “The Gender of Sound,” the poet and classicist Anne Carson traced how Western culture has historically gendered sound, treating the female voice as excessive, disorderly, ...

On June 7, 1955, the Italian national newspaper La Stampa announced—with the pompous optimism typical of the postwar years—that “work on the bridge over the Strait of Messina will begin in one month.” ...

This episode revisits birthright citizenship, both the Supreme Court’s opinion and Trump v. Barbara, and the more recent executive orders where the Trump Administration, once again, tries to take a ...

For any honest student of history observing today’s global inequities, the legacies of colonialism are ubiquitous. However, just as the experiences of these legacies differ across nations, classes, ...

Samuel Stein’s A Right to Housing? asks more than just the titular question, but it does sit with a particularly troubling dilemma: are we crazy to keep fighting? As the book jacket describes, it ...

Here is a definition of the sentence, strict and recent: the minimal theoretical entity required to account for the formal syntactic relationships found to exist among the constituent syntactic units ...

Cover image for The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West by A. J. A. Woods (Verso, 2026) In July 1998, Lind was invited to speak at an ...

Anyone who has transcribed a conversation knows the strangeness of the result: Speech, once written down, often looks less intelligent than it sounded. Repetitions that carried rhythm become clutter; ...

C-SPAN’s Presidential Historians Survey has become one of the most widely cited efforts to evaluate presidential performance—shaping how figures such as Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush ...

If Fordism named the operating system of the twentieth-century economy, what governs the twenty-first? Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff—a historian of global capitalism and a technology writer ...