Issue Number 6
Mainstream
- American Politics
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Mark Greif
The Politics of Fear, Part IV
Alex Gourevitch is right to say that the campaign against global warming can lead to left fantasies of an antipolitics of emergency. I’ll vouch for this, because I have these fantasies myself. More…
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- Book Reviews
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Gloria Fisk
Orhan Pamuk and the Turks
When I observe the ferocity of emotion that my students bring to the subject of this author whose novels they haven’t read, I promise myself to put a novel by Orhan Pamuk on every syllabus I teach here. More…
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Chad Harbach
The End, The End, The End
Our future, like our past, may be virtually free of oil, and global culture, and many of the social safeguards we enjoy. Thus the novel of future catastrophe threatens to become a version of the historical novel. More…
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- Politics
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Alex Gourevitch
The Politics of Fear, Part I
Environmentalism is a left-wing politics of fear because it rests on the deeply fearful idea that only an overweening threat to our physical and collective health can inspire us to “transcendence.” More…
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Chad Harbach
The Politics of Fear, Part III
We will not shift our patterns of life to fit the demands of even the mildest environmentalism; the definition of environmentalism must shift to fit those patterns of life. More…
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Benjamin Kunkel
The Politics of Fear, Part II
We have a richly articulated market, and a lot of stunted lives. In order to live in any comfort, you must commodify the better part of your life: in this case, you engage in a restricted set of tasks for 40 hours a week. More…
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- Reading, Writing, and Publishing
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Carla Blumenkranz
Gawker: 2002–2007
It was crucial that Denton hire novice writers for Gawker; these writers came cheap, and they also were useful in their real fascination with their self-important subjects. More…
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