How do states use cultural policy?

Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...

What is the future of the museum?

Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...

Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...

Eidsheim contents that vocal timbre is an even stronger marker for race and gender than physical appearance...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...

How should we understand work?

What to make of the fact that China is ruled by a Communist Party which detains and arrests people studying Maoism, organising workers, or campaigning for women’s liberation...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms?

What is the future of work?

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...

Part 2 of a two part interview with Allen and Ruti about Klein, Lacan, and Critical Theory...

Joseph-Salisbury explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK...

How have memes changed politics?

Purser takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm...

What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between their psychoanalytic perspectives?

Our conversation examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, and is they relate to her her research on eugenics, white nationalists, the alt-right, and the alt-lite...

Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP)...

Elveren offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy...

Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...