Sometime in the mid-1970s, I spent an evening in conversation with Mr. Sperber—a Jewish-Polish émigré I never knew by any other name—in his housing project apartment in lower Manhattan. At midnight Mr ...

In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.

Writing in Washington Monthly in 1974, future White House speechwriter James Fallows agreed that novelists had earned their ...

Iraq remains a country with deep wounds of neocolonialism and camouflaged ruination. Its unions and revolutionary parties have long lost their capacity to mobilize. For some of those living in liminal ...

ARPAs are everywhere. The granddaddy of them all is the sexagenarian Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which claims credit for the development of stealth technology, the Internet, and ...

I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately ...

On December 7, 2021, we lost a literary and cultural giant. To call Greg Tate one of the most important critics and essayists of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in any language, would ...

Science is under fire as never before in the United States. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump and his Republican allies dismiss the findings of health experts as casually as those of ...

As even its harshest critics concede, neoliberalism is hard to pin down. In broad terms, it denotes a preference for markets over government, economic incentives over social or cultural norms, and ...

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made the French economist Thomas Piketty a household name. The bestselling book, and the discussions that surrounded its release, ...

Over the past fifteen years of observing tech development, I’ve found that terms I once used like “cyber-utopianism,” “Internet-centrism,” and “techno-solutionism” fail to fully capture Big Tech’s ...