The Sentimentality of Evil
I think about The Zone of Interest (2023) while I am making my kids’ lunches, running their baths, folding laundry. Similar domestic routines make up much of the film’s action,…
The University of Arizona’s Institutionalized Border Violence
courtesy Taylor Miller It was dusk for kilometers and bats in the lavender sky, like spiders when a fly is caught, began to appear. And there, not the promised land,…
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir
You’ve may have seen Hindu Indians expressing their sycophantic admiration for Israel — both online under posts about Zionists as well is in parades and marches. But the relationship between…
Care: The Highest Form of Capitalism
Intro In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—one that begat many a mommy thinkpiece, many a motherhood memoir, almost all of which decried and valorized the hard work of…
“Set the terms of your struggle:” The Cal Poly Humboldt Commune Speaks
This interview was edited for clarity and length and a shorter version originally appeared in the print edition of The New York War Crimes. The New York War Crimes: Tell…
Why do American rappers see Drake as not Black enough?
The epic beef between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake has once again demonstrated the linguistic acrobatics of rap culture. The feud has seen both artists release multiple tracks where they…
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
In the early morning of April 30, 2024, we liberated Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. Nearly two weeks earlier, hundreds of people had constructed the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Butler…
The Job of Consent
In sex as elsewhere, consent is asked to do a lot. It is a kind of moral magic, legal theorist Heidi Hurd has suggested, that makes all kinds of unthinkable…
When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions. They spoke to me long before I had the pleasure of meeting their…
An American Education: Notes from UATX
A revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or…