The Best of Current Affairs

We need to build places we can’t stop looking at. It will involve lots of plants.

The label “fascism” gets tossed around a lot—but that doesn’t mean it lacks a coherent definition, or belongs solely to a bygone past. The political formation we call fascism is still very much alive,…

We can build effective mass transit. But this requires ending the dominance of the automobile, an inefficient and dangerous method of transit.

It’s tempting to financially disincentivize car use but we also want public infrastructure to be free at point of use.

Children often ask profound questions about justice, truth, fairness, and why the world is the way it is. Caregivers ought to engage with children in these conversations.

A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written about but…

It’s a good sign for the Democratic Party that Elon Musk doesn’t want to be a member.

It’s not about Americans being dumb sheep, but about how billionaires manipulate us into trusting them, how the reckless pursuit of profit can have catastrophic consequences, and the need to come…

The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.

«among Harari’s flock are some of the most powerful people in the world, and they come to him much like the ancient kings to their oracles.»

The political economy of bullshit.

Businesses sit on a treasure trove of employee surveillance data, which is a threat to working class power and to a dignified work experience.

«According to a survey put out by the American Management Association, approximately 66 percent of U.S. companies monitor their employees’ internet usage, with at least 45 percent of companies logging keystrokes and 43 percent of companies tracking workers’ emails.»

A theory on the function of bullshit jobs: to maintain the illusion of meritocracy and to provide status and prestige for elites.

The core right-wing principle is a belief in hierarchy, not the limitation of state power.

We cannot allow plutocrat-pampering pundits within elite media to derail us from what should be the most important task of our collective lives: to curb planet-warming carbon emissions.