Politics Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/politics/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Politics Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/politics/ 32 32 Strangers in the Family Album: Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography https://www.publicbooks.org/strangers-in-the-family-album-reflections-on-soviet-amateur-photography/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:00:58 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60288 The appearance of strangers within family photo albums was part of how a Soviet imagined and imaged community was constructed and sustained.

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]]> Forever Wars, Forever Forgotten https://www.publicbooks.org/forever-wars-forever-forgotten/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60208 As the war on terror expanded abroad, paradoxically, it faded further into the American background.

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]]> In the Führerbunker with Carlyle and Yarvin https://www.publicbooks.org/in-the-fuhrerbunker-with-carlyle-and-yarvin/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60113 Curtis Yarvin—and, through him, arguably, Thomas Carlyle—has now emerged as a significant source of ideas for the present administration.

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]]> “Flawed from the Outset”: Sonali Thakkar on the UN’s 1950 Attempt to Redefine Race https://www.publicbooks.org/flawed-from-the-outset-sonali-thakkar-on-the-uns-1950-attempt-to-redefine-race/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60100 Liberal antiracism has been undermined precisely because it doesn’t answer the real questions that we care about.

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]]> Lone Star Futures https://www.publicbooks.org/lone-star-futures/ Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59874 Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has unfortunately also been a place where those liberties find some of their ends.

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]]> When Universities Are Agents of the State https://www.publicbooks.org/when-universities-are-agents-of-the-state/ Tue, 20 May 2025 15:00:03 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59783 The story of Israeli universities serves as a warning for what US academia could become.

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]]> “Endless Bad Infinity”: Noah Kulwin and Brendan James on the Feedback Loop of American Empire https://www.publicbooks.org/endless-bad-infinity-noah-kulwin-and-brendan-james-on-the-feedback-loop-of-american-empire/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:00:40 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59486 “We are not picking on things that were particularly happy memories for the American war machine.”

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]]> Kafala in the Time of the Flood https://www.publicbooks.org/kafala-in-the-time-of-the-flood/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59223 The opposite of Kafala is being alive.

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]]> “The Basic Liberal Narrative Is Gone”: Immigrant Rights and Abolition with Silky Shah https://www.publicbooks.org/the-basic-liberal-narrative-is-gone-immigrant-rights-and-abolition-with-silky-shah/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59155 “A singular focus on conditions, rather than the violence of immigration detention itself, just lent itself to expansion.”

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]]> Care Work is Necessary for Anti-Imperialist Struggle https://www.publicbooks.org/care-work-is-necessary-for-anti-imperialist-struggle/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59115 As a means of disrupting the university’s predominant ways of being and relating, the encampment’s ethic of care was not extinguished by the raid.

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