This social unrest wouldn’t be happening if we had a President with the courage to stand up to Netanyahu.

Get excited!! Issue 47 has arrived! Essays on solidarity, who the US deems a 'terrorist' and why, children's liberation, and Islamic finance; a play about Puerto Rico's political status; and more!!

As Chicago contemplates a stadium that will do nothing for the city, here's what I wrote about Barack Obama's Not-A-Library, for Current Affairs.

'How might we think about land and its “use” differently, without the rapacious forces of brute capitalism?'

currentaffairs.org/2022/01/of-tow…

If this is how Noem treats animals who mildly inconvenience her, how would she deal with people from a position of national power? Let’s never find out.

Apr. 30, 2024 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing

Slurp up some news!

-Potential ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
-Another George Floyd in Ohio
-Doggone Kristi Noem

And much more!

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KLee Zaid Jilani FIRE No, breaking windows 'of a historic building' very obviously isn't what 'violence' means.

Much as I like Zizek (quite harshly criticized here), Oren Nimni's caution against verbal inflation has always seemed pretty reasonable to me:

currentaffairs.org/2017/09/defini…

Taxi is a show about transience, but it is also a show about community.... About a menagerie of Fonzies accumulated on the margins, where people go when they’ve got nowhere else to go, about finding beauty in the fluorescent light in a bathroom ceiling.

currentaffairs.org/2024/04/taxi-a…

Grace Blakeley is one of the left’s leading economic thinkers. In her new book, Vulture Capitalism, Blakeley explains how capitalism really works and gives a crucial primer on the modern economy.
currentaffairs.org/2024/04/we-liv…

In the Ethicist’s world, it’s all Law and Order, all the time. currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-bo…

Now more than ever, I am asking that you subscribe to the newsletter x.com/kenklippenstei…

Everyone believes in freedom for speech they agree with. The test of whether a country is free, then, is what happens to unpopular opinions, those that challenge existing authority. currentaffairs.org/2024/04/palest…

Want to call ICE or the cops on someone? The NYT Ethicist has got you covered with those and other snitching dilemmas:
currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-bo…

With front pages dominated by Israel-Palestine, we are losing sight of the worsening catastrophe that needs to remain a top priority.

currentaffairs.org/2023/11/the-cl…

Ken Klippenstein Amazing statement, in places reminiscent of the (exquisite) Strange Matters manifesto or this piece from Current Affairs
currentaffairs.org/2018/09/why-we…

A definitive answer to an age-old question…

currentaffairs.org/2019/04/what-i…

America only looks like a free country if you don't dissent. The moment you challenge authority, the clubs come out and the true face of the society is revealed.

Everyone wants peace, the question is what its terms will be. Israel would like 'peace,' with Palestinians either disappearing or living compliantly in a big prison. You can't be in favor of 'peace' without specifying what kind of peace you mean.

it's just extraordinary to me that the right has spent the past half a decade insisting free speech on college campuses was one of the most important issues of our time, and now they're all in favor of club-wielding thugs tackling protesters