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We cannot know if the cotton industry was the only possible way
We cannot know if the cotton industry was the only possible way into the modern industrial world, but we do know that it was the path to global capita...
For me, and contrary to Foucault, what we should do is deepen the
For me, and contrary to Foucault, what we should do is deepen the social rights that we have already, we should “build on what already exists,” as...
The NGO-ization of the women’s movement has also made Western
The NGO-ization of the women’s movement has also made Western liberal feminism (by virtue of its being the most funded brand) the standard-bearer of...
But what if no “ontological” connection between place and
But what if no “ontological” connection between place and Being exists? What if that proposition is delusional? What if, in fact, the “ontologic...
The only way that you could see any of this as some sort of
The only way that you could see any of this as some sort of terribly complicated conflict is if you don’t actually have a politics, but you instead ...
Go ahead, call her a socialist. See if she cares. Klein is ready
Go ahead, call her a socialist. See if she cares. Klein is ready for a battle and is not afraid to own her politics. Though she doesn’t take up the ...
Such crude xenophobia, now officially sanctioned in Mr. Modi’s
Such crude xenophobia, now officially sanctioned in Mr. Modi’s India, seems only slightly less menacing than the previous R.S.S. chief’s wishful t...
Calling out falsehoods that have gotten traction is another thing
Calling out falsehoods that have gotten traction is another thing journalists can do once they realize that extreme polarization is a feature, not a b...
Both books restage marriage as a violent crime—an abduction. An
Both books restage marriage as a violent crime—an abduction. An independent, expressive single woman is taken from New York; her beautiful body is d...

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