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Resistance to feminist, queer, and antiracist pedagogies can take many forms in the composition clas
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a f
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have
In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ide
G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped
Sociologists have had surprisingly little to say about poetry as a topic while sometimes also making
In today’s cultural and political climate of relative LGBTQ+ inclusion, Settler Tenses: Queer Time a
Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been
The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest and urgency to questions of racial oppression and
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies
Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Columbia University Press, 2024) explores the rel
An analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and m
At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War (Cornel
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human dev
In The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (Routledge, 2024), McManus presents a comprehensive gui
How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of
In this episode, Uzma Jamil is speaking to Stephen Sheehi on epistemology, critical race theory and
In Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke UP, 2023), I. Augustus Durham examines melanch
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book,
