A Political Theory of American Collapse

Local officials say they received no prior notice of the immigration enforcement action at the restaurant that opened in 2024.

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School

Our comrade and friend Joshua Clover (1962-2025) passed away in late April after a brief and mysterious illness. We write as his comrades in the Marxist Institute for Research (MIR) to celebrate his l...

Most professors don't have tenure. An increasing number don't even have full-time jobs. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?

New research examines how brief conversations, and even simple greetings and thank yous, with strangers and acquaintances could make people happier.