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Neoliberalism

Frozen Freedom

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

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

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

The Psychiatric Manufacturing of Identity

On the political circumstances behind rigid, brittle identity constructions.

Dry Capitalism

Dry Capitalism

The new culture of sobriety is deeply complementary to the joyless, achievement-oriented, toxic positivity of the neoliberal age.

There is No Red Pill

There is No Red Pill

The red pill/blue pill metaphor has survived the last two decades, which should be strange: the choice it describes no longer exists.

What is Limbic Capitalism?

What is Limbic Capitalism?

An interview with historian David Courtwright on his new book, <em>The Age of Addiction.</em>