The Argument Is Already Lost
The splashy new liberal rag says there is no war on workers and doubles down on open borders. Future President Steve Bannon must be thrilled.
Neoliberalism and its Discontents
The Crisis of Coercion
The crises of the twenty-first century demand conscious public control. But this power is conspicuously absent, on both right and left.
Frozen Freedom
Artificial Reproductive Technologies like egg freezing are on the rise. For the professional-managerial class women who can afford them, they provide an uneasy freedom that stimulates ambivalence about motherhood, paralysis about mating, and compulsion around costly procedures.
In Pursuit of the Family
Some of our biggest social crises could be solved by a major investment in one of the smallest social institutions.
Dog Moms
Today, pets are superseding children and replacing human partners. It goes without saying that men are dogs, but what does it mean that dogs are now men?
The Psychiatric Manufacturing of Identity
On the political circumstances behind rigid, brittle identity constructions.
Dry Capitalism
The new culture of sobriety is deeply complementary to the joyless, achievement-oriented, toxic positivity of the neoliberal age.
