J. D. Vance’s Straussian Moment
The US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Fighting the Frackers
D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age.
Why Didn’t India Build Its Own Silicon Valley?
Dwaipayan Banerjee’s new book investigates India’s role in the history of 20th-century tech development, and what caused it always to seem a step behind the West.
A Place of Greater Safety
In granting their prime minister a third term, Armenians have embarked on a bold historic gamble to align their country with Turkey and the West.
Anything Could Become a Battleground
Isaac Butler’s new book mixes history and personal testimony to examine the ‘culture wars’ that shaped the 1980s—conflicts that differed in striking ways from the ones we’re witnessing today.
An Echo, a Movement
Two recent novels tackle the complex aftermath of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
Only a Place Like This
Reporting from a car in Baghdad.
Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’
Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.
How a Democratic Republic Dies
Katja Hoyer’s new book is a compelling study of a city on the brink of autocracy, recounted through the eyes and voices of its citizens.
Law & Order: Higher Ed Unit
A professor of Arabic literature on seeing herself on the small screen.
Correctional Facility: A Response to Jonathan Basile’s ‘Natural Election’
How could a UC Irvine anthropology professor and his fellow science studies scholar have such different responses to Kathryn Paige Harden’s recent book?
Organizing Pessimism
André Breton, necropolitics, and 100 years of surrealism.
