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Photograph by David X Prutting / BFA / REX / Shutterstock Ryuichi Sakamoto, “async” In 2014, the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer. He survived and, last year, released “async,” a spare, meditative album that evokes, with…
Last year, around this time, I spent some weeks speaking with workers and bosses in what is often called the gig economy. There was—and there is still—an idea that working self-determined hours on contract, rather than holding a full-time job,…
Over the last year critics have warned of the returning neoconservative influence on the executive branch’s national security apparatus, each day a little less confident that President Donald Trump will keep to the seeming anti-interventionist impulses he demonstrated during the…
Amidst the firestorm of U.S.-Russia recriminations and closings of diplomatic facilities this past September, and on the heels of an intense, year-long American campaign to demonize all things Russian, a project calling itself the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy…
In the long arc of history, while regimes come and go, civilizations endure. Bet on the former against the latter, and you’re taking one helluva gamble. The House of Saud is a regime, a dynastic enterprise masquerading as a nation-state.…
January can be a dark and depressing month. As we move our Christmas trees to the curb and pack up glistening ornaments, the sparkle and enchantment of December slowly disappears before us. The darkness and cold are no longer transformed…
