Issue Number 6

Mainstream

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  • American Politics
    • 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…

  • Book Reviews
    • 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…

    • 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…

  • Politics
    • 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…

    • 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…

    • 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…

  • Reading, Writing, and Publishing
    • 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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