Our America issue focuses on militarism, foreign policy, technology, capitalism, and exceptionalism through the lens of a word we’re hearing with increasing frequency: multipolarity.

Episode 20 of the Protean View podcast

Episode 17 of the Protean View podcast

Episode 15 of the Protean View podcast

The lesson of history is that armed movements do not disarm because they are defeated, but because political developments and integration make their arms functionally obsolete.

Our final issue of the year focuses on questions of community, crisis, and the tensions in between.

In the past thirty years, the top 1% in America have added $21 trillion to their wealth, while the bottom 50% has lost $900 billion. We know from history that democracy cannot survive such conditions.

Episode 12 of the Protean View podcast

Episode 12 of the Protean View podcast

Post-Assad Syria was, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary transformation—in reality, its leaders inherited conditions that narrowed the horizon of possibility before the first stroke was made.

Episode 10 of the Protean View podcast

Episode 10 of the Protean View podcast

What does it mean to be authentic in our politics, within systems of power, and in acts of resistance? How is “authenticity” claimed, challenged, or co-opted?

Post-Assad Syria was, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary transformation—in reality, its leaders inherited conditions that narrowed the horizon of possibility before the first stroke was made.

Many praise doubt as a critical virtue—but what happens when skepticism becomes an excuse to waver in the face of injustice? As Gaza burns, intellectual ambivalence becomes a mask for moral evasion.

Episode 9 of the Protean View podcast

What actually severed modern clinical practice from older ways of knowing was state power. In 1873, German-trained Nagayo Sensai established the Bureau of Medical Affairs, launching a biopolitical, hy...

Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast

Episode 7 of the Protean View podcast

The necropolitics of Trump's attack on immigrants like Mahmoud Khalil: Death is the point.

What elements of postmodernism should we preserve, and what must we discard? What defines the metamodern—what it is and what it is not—and why does it matter?

The market is based on a zero-sum game logic, according to which the world is split between winners and losers. This logic shapes our political culture and points a contradiction of liberalism.

October 11, 1985 was set to be an ordinary Friday for Alex Odeh. But when he opened the door to his office that morning, he triggered a bomb that detonated into a fireball of shrapnel.

Aaron Bushnell didn't self-immolate to "raise awareness" of the Gaza genocide but to expose the limits of protest in the face of incorrigible power. One year later, he was right.

In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in?

Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.

Today, March 24, 2025, Israel killed journalist Hossam Shabat, a reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and a contributing reporter to Drop Site News, in what witnesses described as a targeted strike.

كيف نصبر على الجوع وماذا يأكل المحاصَر؟ يروي الكاتب الناجي من الحصار وسام شهلا تجربته الشخصية وتجارب ناجين في جنوب دمشق وغزة من حصار الجوع.

Noor Abdalla shares a firsthand account of her husband Mahmoud Khalil's detainment on "CBS Sunday Morning" March 23.

His protest was both a rejection of the idea that human life is expendable and an acknowledgment that, for so many, it already has been.

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

His protest was both a rejection of the idea that human life is expendable and an acknowledgment that, for so many, it already has been.

How have Vikings come to serve an ideologically recuperative function in Anglo-American culture? How do they relate to the Abrahamic misfit?