"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a ...

Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri ...

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author ...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long ...

The bombed elementary school in Iran appears to have become a target thanks to satellite imaging. In this case, what the image represented — and to who — was a matter of life and death.” ...

No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.” ...

The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips. Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory ...

I usually flinch from swashbuckling claims, but let me make this one at least: No hero from ancient myth feels as human as Odysseus. No one as relatable in their indomitable will to survive. Is it any ...

These iconic moments reveal how deeply football and politics shape each other in Argentina. The interplay between politics and football is examined in two recent books, which explore how Argentine ...

The aging history professor—his beard graying, his posture slouching—parks his 1997 Honda and walks to his office at Johns Hopkins. Along the way he passes two giant glass cubes that, for the last ...

What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black History, Literary Fiction, Print/Screen, ...