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Critical Theory
Interviews with scholars of critical theory about their new books.
July 26, 2024
Millennial Jewish Stars
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many mi…
July 22, 2024
Fascism in America
Has fascism arrived in America? In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered expe…
July 21, 2024
Burn It Down
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from th…
July 21, 2024
Capitalist Humanitarianism
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the …
July 21, 2024
American Zealots
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks ori…
July 20, 2024
Unsettling Choice
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually …
July 18, 2024
Freeman's Challenge
Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), by Dr. Robin Bernstein, whic…
July 17, 2024
Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam
Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad, has an interesting legacy, one that is often shaped by sectarian differences and tensions. The sermon of Fat…
July 16, 2024
American Anarchy
In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or pri…
July 14, 2024
Queering Law and Order
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of …
July 14, 2024
Making Never-Never Land
Myths about the powers held by the United States are often supported by the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which derives its logic from the interp…
July 13, 2024
Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain
What does the history of men tell us about life today? In Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present (Manchester UP, 2024), th…
July 12, 2024
Towers of Ivory and Steel
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sour…
July 11, 2024
Waiting for the Cool Moon
In Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire (Duke UP, 2024) Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of c…
July 10, 2024
Storming Bedlam
Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism. The contemporary world is over…
July 10, 2024
Take This Hammer
The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also un…
July 10, 2024
Counter-Cartographies
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool UP, 2024) draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in co…
July 9, 2024
Dismantling Mass Incarceration
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. The…
July 9, 2024
Human Capital
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displaced…
July 7, 2024
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approach…