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#71 South Africa Agonistes

September 4, 2026

Post-Post-Apartheid

William Shoki

Hinge of the Modern World

A Response to William Shoki

Panashe Chigumadzi

The Medium as a Site of Struggle

An interview with Sean O'Toole

Hedley Twidle

Not Yet Tomorrow

A Response to William Shoki

Nic Dawes

Against Post-Post-Apartheid

A Response to William Shoki

Brian Kagoro

#70

Mystifications

August 20, 2026

In the Comfort of Apocalypse

Marlène Laruelle

The Thesis of Political Capitalism

Dylan Riley

The Irresistible Rise and Fall of Evo Morales

Pablo Stefanoni

Obfuscations of Populism

Hans Kundnani

#69

Into the Voids

July 23, 2026

The Contradictions of Giorgia Meloni

Ursula Lindsey

Easy Come, Easy Go

Owen Hatherley

Froth, Fury, and the Rise of the New Right

Mark Leonard

#68

Quiddities

July 9, 2026

Hammer and Ballot

Arash Azizi

The Communist Mystique

Sergey Radchenko

Die Groß Chill

Peter Kuras

Soundtracks to Argentina’s Democracy

José Natanson

#67

La Longue Durée

June 25, 2026

The Century of Eric Hobsbawm

Enzo Traverso

Closer to Rude than Snide

An Interview with Leo Robson

Leonard Benardo

Pragmatic Failure

Nathalie Tocci

The Cult of Optimization

Phil Tinline

#66 Reflections on the Machine

June 11, 2026

The Machine Will Never Say I’m Losing You

Sascha Altman DuBrul

The State as API

Kendra Schaefer

Content Violation

Xiaowei Wang

Reify This

Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and Benjamin Recht

The People’s Republic of Techno-Optimists

Selina Xu

#65 Accommodations

May 28, 2026

Brazil’s Last Line of Defense

Marcos Nobre

Vargas Vive

Miguel Lago

Spheres of Illusion

Oliver Stuenkel

#64

Terms of Art

May 14, 2026

Cuba, End of the Peculiar

Leonardo Padura

Cuba, el fin de lo peculiar

Leonardo Padura

Digital Bandung

Quinn Slobodian

He Lost It at the Movies

Leo Robson

Sembène Erased

Kéchi Nne Nomu

#63

Spheres of Influencers

April 30, 2026

Shooting the Suns

China and the Future of AI

Nicholas Bequelin

The Grinning Defiance of Chinese Soft Power

Iza Ding

Power without Ideology

Welcome to the Multipolar World

Daniel Bessner

#62

Management

April 16, 2026

Maximalism Must Fall

Adam Habib

Feminism: Made in China

Angela Xiao Wu and Yige Dong

The Social Edge of Intelligence

Bright Simons

Guitar Hero

An Interview with Marc Ribot

Leonard Benardo

#61

Remembrances

April 2, 2026

Martin Jay’s Habermas

Martin Jay

Mamdani Lands at LaGuardia

Sarah Miller-Davenport

The Center and The Periphery

Afra Wang

#60

Distortions

March 19, 2026

Mexico’s Forever War on Drugs

Carlos Pérez Ricart

Democracies Disfigured

Christine Mungai

Illiberalism as Anti-Liberalism

Dimitar Bechev

#59

Structures/Strictures

March 5, 2026

Finland Is Designing Europe’s Sovereignty

Daniele Belleri

Mamdani’s Blank Slate

Kalundi Serumaga

In West Africa, the Road to Legitimacy is Paved in Tarmac

Cheta Nwanze

#58

Sketches of Spain

February 19, 2026

Sanchismo’s Last Stand

Ekaitz Cancela

The Long Civil Rights Movement

Shehryar Fazli

The Next Great Transformation

Jeremy Shapiro

#57

Eternal Recurrences

February 5, 2026

The Socialist Charcuterie Board

Morozov Replies

Evgeny Morozov

Automate the C-Suite

A Response to Morozov and Benanav

Leif Weatherby

A Real Political Economy of Technology

A Rebuttal to Morozov

Aaron Benanav

#56

Meditations on Autocracy

January 22, 2026

A Good Life in Bad Times

Richard Sennett

Woke Obsessions

David Klion

Cold War Fixations

Lily Lynch

The Secret Agent

Carnival Strikes Back

Pedro Abramovay

#55

Revolutions Betrayed

January 8, 2026

Thirty Yards from Revolution

Ernesto Semán

Where a Hundred Analogies Bloom

The Perils of Comparing Trump to Mao

Christian Sorace

The Last Word in Russia’s Courts

Anna Narinskaya

#54

Anxieties of Influence

December 11, 2025

Socialism After AI

Evgeny Morozov

A Pure Act in a Dirty World

An Interview with Matthew Shipp

Leonard Benardo

Beyond Arendt and Gramsci

The Primacy of Politics

Dylan Riley

#53

Blueprints

November 27, 2025

Another Reckoning

(With China)

Afra Wang

Continental Contradictions

Juan Elman

Shock and Vlog

China’s Urbanism

Owen Hatherley

#52

Crusaders

November 13, 2025

Calendars of Truth

Tessy Schlosser

Insurgent Legality

Imraan Buccus

All Betz Are Off

John Merrick

#51

Returns

October 30, 2025

The Clash of Civilizationalisms

Hans Kundnani and Srirupa Roy

Misunderstood Radicals

The German New Right

Adam Knowles

#50

Alternatives

October 16, 2025

The Great Reckoning

What the West Should Learn From China

Kaiser Kuo

“Bloodless Pedantry”

Tim Crane

The Moral Economy of the Far Right

Miri Davidson

#49

Persona

October 3, 2025

Facial Recognitions

William Davies

The Economics of Complicity

How Israel Is Buying the Destruction of Gaza

Assaf Bondy and Adam Raz

#48

Fissiparousness

September 18, 2025

Diplomatic Delusions

An Interview with Robert Malley

Leonard Benardo

Morality Plays

Chetan Bhatt

Did Colonization Ever End?

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce

#47

Opportunities

September 4, 2025

Polytunity

The Future of Development

Yuen Yuen Ang

Who’s Afraid of Jeannette Jara?

Chile’s Next President Might be a Communist

Giorgio Jackson

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