The Contemporary Condition

D eborah Connolly Youngblood, Ph.D. Vice President of Research and Innovation at Crittenton Women’s Union. She is a cultural anthropologist...

Steven Johnston University of South Florida The recent assassination of a top Hamas official by the Mossad comes as no surprise, not ev...

Davide Panagia Trent University The issue is one of coming to terms with one’s relation to one’s culture. Nothing less is what ...

Timothy Morton U.C. Davis In the liner notes to Stop Making Sense , Talking Heads frontman David Byrne wrote “Nuclear weapons could wip...

Jairus Victor Grove   Johns Hopkins University I stumbled upon a little book a few weeks ago. It was, in fact, its shape and color that ...

John Buell Author of Evil Doers: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics (New York University Press). This ad (her...

Thomas Dumm Amherst College In a recent post at the Salon website, Michael Lind asserts that the rise of the Tea Party movemen...

Bill Connolly Johns Hopkins University The evidence in favor of homo-economic sources of climate change is overwhelming, even if the d...