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The Poverty of Theory
Circulate Now, Mobilize Later
From my view the left seems to be in good shape. And that’s a problem, because we’re not in good shape, …
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Selected Salvos
Psephology in Free Fall
Sometimes you have to wince. The 2016 election was full of awful, cringing moments: “Pokémon Go to the polls.” The mere …
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Online Essays
Rubber And Heroin In A Dying City
In 2001, facing an industry significantly weaker than it had seen in recent years, the Goodyear Tire Company laid off nearly …
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Stories
Captain’s Table
For the past decade or so, I have been obsessed with news stories about cruise ships, in particular the idea of …
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Books
Cotton Tenants: Three Families
A rediscovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer. In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let …