In Defense of the Frick Collection
A piece from our latest issue was narrated on KBOO recently, soliciting angry replies from Portland and beyond. Here's one.
A piece from our latest issue was narrated on KBOO recently, soliciting angry replies from Portland and beyond. Here's one.
Sometimes bad service is class struggle.
Zero Dark Thirty is a film that didn’t need to be made — it strives for realism, but ends up rehashing Bush-era tropes about the ‘war on terror.’
On the Italian Communist Party and the path not taken between the horrors of state socialism and the bankruptcy of modern social democracy.
The protests in Turkey are, quite simply, an assertion of humanity in the face of inhumanity.
Luxury condo development can't solve the affordable housing crisis — only public housing can.
Let’s have a debate over the Left and the state. But not on the libertarians’ distorted terms.
Stuart Hall was, first and foremost, a person driven by political commitment.
Sex workers are somehow invisible when it comes to discerning the truth about their work. Yet clients, police, and others have no trouble finding them to pay, arrest, extort, rob, beat, or rape.
To many liberals, injustice is a product of misunderstanding, the result of faceless processes that no one really benefits from.
Amtrak doesn’t need a writer’s residency program. It needs to deliver affordable, reliable public transportation.
While the first Purge was a pleasurable if somewhat overripe piece of agitprop, The Purge: Anarchy succumbs to full-on rot.
Nothing short of a mass movement will stop the police from killing black people.
In Germany, a "modernized" far right is marrying neoliberalism and racism. What will be the Left's response?
Framing China as an environmental villain only serves to excuse American inaction.
Eduardo Galeano was a man of letters who lived a life of resistance.
Facebook wants real names. Its users want a real public space.
Socialism isn't about inducing bland mediocrity. It's about unleashing the creative potential of all.
We shouldn’t reduce historical narratives solely to questions of black agency. It’s bad history — and can lead to even worse politics.
Socialism is often conflated with authoritarianism. But historically, socialists have been among democracy's staunchest advocates.