Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values—including truth itself—and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max... Læs mere
In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, while the other equates... Læs mere
Idi Amin’s crimes on behalf of Black empowerment in Uganda made him a monster in the world’s eyes. Yet Yoweri Museveni has... Læs mere
From 1921 to 1944, the United States removed approximately one million ethnic Mexicans—mostly women and children who... Læs mere
Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the character sketch as a source of... Læs mere
Diego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in Mexico, diverse Asian... Læs mere
Linguist Rishi Rajpopat solves an ancient puzzle, showing that Pa?ini’s Sanskrit grammar is self-sufficient. Centuries... Læs mere
The romantic vision of the civil rights movement is exhausted, and its inverse, Afropessimism, offers a self-defeating irony.... Læs mere