Philosophy too often sidelines Black thinkers, reinforcing a Eurocentric intellectual canon. This dialogue calls for a radical restructuring of philosophical education to center Black thought and integrate marginalized insights. With Adebayo Oluwayomi buff.ly/8tJ0Hmj

India’s digital revolution in urban governance is no apolitical upgrade. Our open-access article of the week interrogates how state bodies like STARMAP serve as brokers for private expertise. By Sanjay Srivastava & Matt Birkinshaw buff.ly/cceX3iz

Israel’s decades-long strategy of de-healthification in Palestine has weaponized healthcare to enforce colonial control. This dialogue argues that the genocidal impact of this strategy ensures the suffering of an entire population. With Layth Malhis on @alshabaka.bsky.social buff.ly/lXgg2Ca

Framing Frantz Fanon’s work as a blueprint for collective liberation, our video of the week rejects the traps of pacifist complicity, arguing that freedom demands a radical reinvention of the political towards “radical love.” Featuring Lewis Gordon at @asanewsonline.bsky.social buff.ly/o51rvDY

Europe’s security elites act like nepo babies of U.S. power. This dialogue argues they prioritize bloated arms deals and outdated models of military dominance over innovative, people-centred security solutions. With @almutrochowanski.bsky.social on @cornerspaeti.operationglad.io buff.ly/zDE4G6b

Despite its conception as a diplomatic chess match, the Cold War was an imperial drama where “men on the spot” profoundly shaped violence on the margins. Our podcast of the week reframes the Cold War as a global history of imperial violence and covert operations. With Alfred McCoy buff.ly/FRDrVMf

How does a man with a phantom past become the Zelig of the Latin American radical right? Our Spanish pick of the week charts Fernando Cerimedo's rise from a mysterious consultant to the digital operator behind Javier Milei’s presidency. By @solevallejos.bsky.social buff.ly/gHoSNWQ

For all the left’s reputation as a haven for intellectuals, it has failed to advance a vision of education that matches its egalitarian politics. Our essay of the week advances a more liberatory vision of education. By @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social in @thepointmag.bsky.social buff.ly/BuThbqV

Don’t be fooled: Trumpism is not a monolithic movement. Our hidden gem of the week maps the diverse sections whose shared disgust at elite power and “wokeness” masks sharp splits over democracy and America's future. By @dyudkin.bsky.social et al. at @moreincommonus.bsky.social buff.ly/CK7zFIs

The global rush for low-carbon technologies now mirrors the old colonial logic of resource extraction. Our book of the week examines how Congo’s critical minerals have condemned it to inequality, instability, and armed conflict. By Nicolas Niarchos on @penguinpress.bsky.social buff.ly/sQsPnsS

By tracing Kodak's evolution from film pioneer to supplier of military materials, this conversation reveals how film production intersected with forced labor in Nazi Germany, nuclear fallout, and U.S. Cold War imperialism. W/ @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on @amprestigepod.bsky.social

The forgotten history of the Ladino Left unveils an alternate legacy of Jewish radicalism. Overlooked by dominant Ashkenazi-Yiddish narratives, this movement fought for socialism and solidarity with marginalized communities. By Devin E. Naar in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani’s story is a challenge to rigid identity boxes, argues this essay. As a Ugandan-born, Indian American democratic socialist, he weaves his unique migration history into a political identity that celebrates transnational belonging. By Trishula Patel in @historians.org

This dialogue focuses on the use and role of AI in healthcare, and how therapists fear automation will degrade patient care and erode labor conditions, turning treatment into a factory-like process while leaving workers vulnerable to replacement. With Ciara Keegan et al. buff.ly/HrGqGAf

While platforms like M-Pesa appear to uplift a fraction of users in Kenya and South Korea, this paper shows how they exploit working-class wages through debt traps, algorithmic experimentation, and unregulated lender practices. By @scotttimcke.bsky.social buff.ly/VXH3PPA

What does culture actually do for everyday life? Our open-access article of the week interrogates the methodological straitjackets that confine culture within neoliberal quantification. By Abigail Gilmore et al. in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social buff.ly/VgCU5SM

AI "answer engines" like ChatGPT are gutting the internet's ecosystem by siphoning value from creators without compensation. The result, as this piece details, is shrinking information diversity and a fragile knowledge base. By @hamiltonmann.bsky.social in @noemamag.com.web.brid.gy buff.ly/KCP4ipO

China’s competitive college entrance exam—the gaokao—is not a mere educational hurdle, but the organizing logic of social order and state power. Our video of the week reveals how the exam reflects China’s own social divides. Ft. Ruixue Jia & Barry Naughton at @gpsucsd.bsky.social buff.ly/RCdgLdc

How did books shape the computing revolution and its enduring legacy in understanding technology today? This discussion paints a vivid landscape, from early works like Berkeley’s "Giant Brains" to Nelson’s subversive "Computer Lib." Featuring @patrickmccray.bsky.social buff.ly/8jHnqRJ

Hope is not a policy, nor is “innovation” a magic trick. As our podcast of the week argues, the idea that climate salvation will come through breakthrough technologies is a myth that serves as an alibi for inaction. With @davidedgerton.bsky.social on @the-breakdown.bsky.social buff.ly/Z0I6utI

When the universities trade their public mission for market logic, what is truly left? Surveying three decades, our French pick of the week unpacks the corrosive effects of relentless auditing, metrics, and internal competition on French higher education. By Olivier Cléach et al. buff.ly/vpzZCvH

Before ascending to the head of the FBI, Kash Patel wrote a children’s book trilogy full of MAGA conspiracy theories. Our essay of the week tracks how right-wing politics pivoted from myth-making to mass-market fantasy. By @gideonjacobs.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social buff.ly/BFEQVvR

A seismic reshuffling is underway in the world of scientific production. Our hidden gem of the week shows how the West’s historic monopoly is giving way to a more multipolar, but also more siloed, global science order. By Abhishek Nagaraj et al. at @nber.org buff.ly/X7ygpxz

Nairobi has become a test-site for China’s techno-capital. Our book of the week maps how the city's new digital ecosystem challenges both the West-centric script of technological “catch-up” and alarmist tales of neocolonialism. By @andretwp.bsky.social on @ucpress.bsky.social buff.ly/Jo6qN6X

Tracing the postcards of British burlesque performer Miss Kitty Lord, this dialogue uncovers the vibrant culture of Belle Époque Cairo—a city where colonial power collided with local artistry and risqué performances thrived alongside strict social codes. With Gwendolyn Collaço

From the iconic "Earthrise" photo to the shifting hues of oceans, Earth's colors have long shaped our political imagination. This essay argues: color is not mere decoration but a mirror of human impact—and an invitation to act. By @frederic-hanusch.bsky.social in @noemamag.com

Mark B. Smith's "Exit Stalin" captures the Soviet Union’s paradoxical existence post-Stalin: a dictatorship liberalized but not democratic. This review traces how Smith shows a world oscillating between progress and control. By Owen Hatherley in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

States exploit migrants by devaluing their lives while extracting their labor and vitality. This study demands urgent scrutiny of how policies weaponize precarity, not for inclusion, but for the extraction of life itself. By @smartitaz.bsky.social in @proghumgeog.bsky.social buff.ly/JS46rXz

Hayden White challenges the illusion of history as chronicle, arguing it’s always shaped by narrative and ideology. This dialogue unpacks how this narrative framing reflects underlying moral and political commitments. With Lillian Cicerchia et al. on @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social buff.ly/pYBYRPF

The myth of solitary artistic genius obscures a deeper reality: the rise of modern art was inseparable from a transformation in the structure of its market. Our article of the week foregrounds the economics underlying the history of modern art. By David W. Galenson buff.ly/ZI9eijw

The empire in classical Greece was an idea shaped and reshaped by Athenian imperialism in the 5th century. As this seminar details, Athens laid the groundwork with the Delian League, turning an alliance into an extractive empire. Feat. Polly Low at @britschoolathens.bsky.social buff.ly/QIqW1RR

Against a backdrop of escalating climate disaster and authoritarianism, utopian thinking can seem at best naïve and escapist. But as our video of the week argues, even flawed utopian experiments prefigure alternatives to capitalist extraction and dispossession. Feat. Fern Thompsett buff.ly/HHs63C9

HBO’s "The Last of Us" lays bare humanity’s relationship with violence, but it succumbs to the limits of its genre. This piece argues that the show devolves into a binary Western where survival and revenge overwrite deeper questions. By Michael Autrey in @asapjournal.bsky.social buff.ly/kzOxVTz

“Life," writes Robert Musil, "forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.” Our podcast of the week unpacks the novelist's treatment of life as essayistic. With @bencenanay.bsky.social on @philtalkradio.bsky.social buff.ly/RkQrtqq

A world wired for war starts with a world mined into submission. From Congo, Mexico, and Gaza to Australia and Canada, our Spanish pick of the week dissects how the discourse of “critical minerals” obscures the global entanglement between extractivism and militarization. buff.ly/PyDx11T

Just six years after the Estallido Social’s uprising against neoliberal austerity, José Antonio Kast, has ridden a wave of right-wing radicalization to the presidency. Our essay of the week examines the rise of the Chilean far-right. By Luciano S. Hoces in @irgac-rls.bsky.social buff.ly/PpjaJD1

Pop culture’s AI fantasies about killer robots function less as entertainment than as collective thought experiments about automation. Our hidden gem of the week surveys how AI narratives in pop culture shape public understanding. By Manuel Wörsdörfer at @umaine.bsky.social buff.ly/ge2xGz5

In postwar France, anthropologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, and theologians cultivated a primitivist sensibility to critique capitalist growth and consumerism. Our book of the week traces the rise of postwar primitivism. By Ryan L. Allen on @uchicagopress.bsky.social buff.ly/GOFnmVk

While Kant offered reflections on music within his transcendental system, this presentation argues that his limited experience and apparent lack of serious interest contributed to inconsistencies and contradictions. Feat. Robert Louden

A new Bodleian exhibition uncovers the archives of John le Carré. This conversation explores the exhibition and Le Carré's life and work, which emerges as both a chronicler and critic of the messy politics behind modern power. With Jessica Douthwaite

Feminist scientists in the '60s and ’70s challenged the entrenched view of primate societies as ruled by aggressive alpha males, uncovering complex dynamics of cooperation. But as this podcast details, the "alpha male" myth endures in human culture. W/ @samaragreenwood.bsky.social

This piece details how slick pop-country stars like Ana Castela reshape agribusiness's image, appealing to younger audiences while normalizing an industry that profits at the expense of Indigenous rights and Brazil’s working poor. By Carolina A. Galvão in @thedialmag.bsky.social buff.ly/nUkEnDe

The “plucky little village” myth distorts how we view conflicts and power dynamics. This piece argues that perceived underdogs like Ukraine or Israel in 1948 rarely triumph alone; their “superpower” is often the backing of empires. By @francescoppola.bsky.social buff.ly/yxLbayJ

Why, amid climate catastrophe, does hope often flourish not in Berlin apartments but in Namibian deserts and Kenyan fields? Our article of the week explores how the experience of climate change sparks cultural and collective hope. By Julian Sommerschuh in @amanthro.bsky.social buff.ly/PqG9TfH

This piece traces how copyright impasses transformed a collective dream into a corporate asset: while millions of out-of-print but in-copyright works languish unusable for human research, tech giants and AI models enjoy backstage access. By Monica Westin in @asteriskmag.bsky.social buff.ly/sj9aHjF

Drawing a throughline from Ricardo’s abstract models to today’s debates over trade and finance, our video of the week shows how economists’ “visions” shape which interests are illuminated and which are left in darkness. Ft. @natjdyer.bsky.social at @economicresearch.bsky.social buff.ly/tNNpCn9

Trần Đức Thảo’s life was a collision of ideas and empires. This essay argues that his tragedy lay in his refusal to separate the philosophical, political, and personal, making his life a reflection on the costs of commitment. By Rory O'Sullivan in @aeon.co buff.ly/lTw6sVX

Donald Trump’s saber-rattling over Greenland’s rare earths is less about geology than geopolitics. As our podcast of the week details, the territory's vaunted rare earth “wealth” is not unique and is locked behind severe roadblocks. With Adrian Finch, @whippletom.bsky.social et al. buff.ly/YRPawXb

James Cameron’s latest Avatar film has delivered a final blow to the cinema of reality. Our French pick of the week contends that Cameron's technophilic universe is the endgame of a cinema that once “showed” the world. By Quentin Béhel in @lundimatin.bsky.social buff.ly/QenxLrk

Helicopters, flash grenades, and mass detentions in Chicago’s South Shore signal a transformation of U.S. immigration enforcement. Our essay of the week traces how Trump’s second-term regime has weaponized DHS and ICE. By @michael-macher.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social buff.ly/722Za9e