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The calculus of power isn’t defined by hits or clicks or tweets. It is measured in relationships and meaningful reactions over time.
Michael Gecan
The right’s success in media is not a shadowy conspiracy; it has been achieved out in the open, largely through ordinary politics. Much of it can be countered the same way.
Nicole Hemmer
The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight—the same position it held in 1953, when the United States and USSR detonated their first hydrogen bombs. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?
Stephen Phelan
How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”
Lawrence B. Glickman
We already know how Brett Kavanaugh responds to human suffering.
Sarah Hill
James Baldwin’s book about the Atlanta child murders speaks best to the era of Black Lives Matter.
Joseph Vogel
The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.
Daniel Penny
Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.
Vijay Prashad, Mark Nowak
Walden is often championed as an anti-technology manifesto. But this misses the value Thoreau found in conversations spread across vast spans of time and distance.
John Tinnell
Of the pioneers who drove the information technology revolution, Claude Shannon may have been the most brilliant. A new book resurrects his legacy.
Tom Rutledge
A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.
Jonathan Kirshner
A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.
John Crowley
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