The Lost Art of Looking at Nature
While David Attenborough’s work rarely gives center stage to climate change, his project has always been to shift how humans relate to nature.
Fall 2024
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The Art of War
Like almost every other war film, The Battle at Lake Changjin is less a work of art than a social engineering project.
Therapy With a Human Face
The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach.
Maybe We Could Be Each Other’s Moms
The core spirit of Sex Education, easily missed on account of its boisterous sex-positivity, is the sophisticated sexual prudence of Generation Z.
Permission to Imagine
A new collection of Stuart Hall’s writing offers a guide to the limits of representation in building anti-racist politics.
Escape from Adjunct Hell
Academia once seemed to provide an escape from capitalism. Two new novels question the very concept of refuge itself.
The Art of Obstruction
A new art project uses the legal system of mineral rights as a means to block oil and gas extraction.
Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything
Adam Curtis’s latest film paints a picture of the world that is so complex, so dense, and so theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.
A Friend to the Dissidents
The late Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal said his style was a “defense against politics.” But by collecting and describing the debris of life, he made the everyday seem mythic and earned the affection of the dissident movement.
Cult Capitalism
To understand how NXIVM’s members went from the pursuit of professional success to facilitating and enduring horrific wrongs requires examining the world of contemporary business from which the cult emerged.
Emotions on Strike
Burnout is not a problem we can individually solve. It is a symptom of a world set up to exhaust us to the point where we cannot resist.
The Exhausted Radiance of Claudine
The 1974 romance Claudine is one of the few true depictions of working-class life in a decade of great films that rarely addressed the topic.
The Long Trail to Socialism
America’s trail systems embody a conservationist ethic in support of leisure. Their construction was the essence of public work: not for profit but a common good.
The Relational Economy
Both romantic and working relationships are under extraordinary pressure. Can we seize this moment to reclaim our hearts from our jobs?
The Gramsci of the Brazilian Right
Once a major influence on Jair Bolsonaro, Olavo de Carvalho’s ambition is to establish a new right-wing, nationalist cultural hegemony in Brazil.
