TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD BE BUILDING, THEN!
The Editors
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How should we live in a rogue state?
Crazy Bastards
The decay and disarray are our own, while China rockets humanity into the future.
Sinophobic Sinophilia
Dystopias are easier to write than protopias. Any chance of a more balanced approach?
That’s what ChatGPT told me lol
It sounds like an outtake from a Dwight Macdonald Partisan Review piece.
Don’t Mute the Post Horn
Large Language Muddle
It’s OK to be a Luddite!
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.
Introduction: Three Pieces on ICE
The hardening authoritarianism of the second Trump Administration has many faces, but the most chilling is one that can hardly be seen at all.
Why the steep drop in old-fashioned correspondence?
Still Mad About Our Packaging?
If the government is good for business, why destroy the government?
Deep State Chainsaw Massacre
May 7, 2025
A Message from the NEA’s Literary Arts Staff
You inspire us
Thank you to the poets, the story writers, the novelists, the essayists, the memoirists for your words that have lifted us toward the light. You remind us to slow down and be awed, to feel that unique joy in wondering about what we don’t know.
Unable to actually legislate, congresspeople have resorted to becoming posters and trolls.
You’re a working-class organic intellectual if…
Jameson’s work seemed to suggest that criticism might open a door to paradise.
