Voluntary and community-driven, Tamriel Rebuilt balances an ethos of creative freedom with rigorous quality control, which, as this piece suggests, stands in quiet defiance of today’s profit-driven gaming industry. By @cfwinstanley in @tribunemagazine https://t.co/Xc4cws1gXU

@LalehKhalili @ReturnToBandung This podcast is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Podcasts: https://t.co/ncJIcwsrGb

From wage theft on container ships to geopolitical strife, global shipping props up inequality worldwide. Yet, in the face of it all, this dialogue argues that dockworkers hold immense power to disrupt this machinery. W/ @LalehKhalili on @ReturnToBandung https://t.co/Yt3nY8LZhC

@AmPrestigePod This episode can be found in this week's edition of the Best of Podcasts: https://t.co/ncJIcwsrGb

Tracking China’s turbulent path from the May Fourth Movement to Mao’s 1949 revolution, this conversation argues that the Communist and Nationalist Parties—often cast as bitter opposites—shared institutional DNA. With Yidi Wu on @AmPrestigePod https://t.co/sur0WXtNkE

The age of algorithmic capitalism has turned attention into a fiercely contested commodity. Our open-access article of the week dissects the philosophical and economic capture of attention. By D. Graham Burnett https://t.co/TfVeiRqzBt

@lewis_goodall @danhind @LRB This episode is part of this week's edition of the Best of Podcasts: https://t.co/ncJIcwsrGb

A broken BBC reflects a broken Britain. To rebuild trust, this dialogue argues that the BBC must shed its defensiveness, resist fear-driven conformity, and recommit to bold, unflinching public journalism. With @lewis_goodall & @danhind on @LRB https://t.co/u7szGT20id

Fringe science is the inevitable byproduct and shadow of scientific prestige, boundary-making, and social organization. Our video of the week explores the border between science and pseudoscience. Feat Michael D. Gordin at @WolfHumanities https://t.co/KSfS5MVZTv

@WORTtalk This episode is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Podcasts: https://t.co/ncJIcwsrGb

This conversation roots modern policing in the violence of capital accumulation—tracing its evolution through imperial conquest, anti-Black enslavement, and the suppression of working-class dissent. With Brian Bean on @WORTtalk https://t.co/iCECOX2vyg

Tracing capitalism’s reliance on nature and reproductive labor as unvalued input, our podcast of the week maps how capital’s drive to commodify everything confronts frictions in biological processes, from farming to childbirth. With @alybatt https://t.co/3N8qpUZ9EH

Through the insidious spread of its language, AI is colonizing social and political life. Our French pick of the week builds a “critical vocabulary” to trace how AI’s expansion installs a ruling logic and remakes judgment itself. By Thierry Ménissier https://t.co/QtCgFlapM5

A new breed of digital masculinity is taking up residence in Marbella. Our essay of the week details how the Spanish resort town has become a hub for the manosphere—an online fraternity championing wealth and misogyny. By Mayya Chernobylskaya at @OCCRP https://t.co/xuxuiEVIMH

The data center boom looks less like a harbinger of innovation than a speculative bubble. Our hidden gem of the week exposes how circular financing and mountains of opaque private debt mask endemic cash flow deficits. By Advait Arun at @PubEnterprise https://t.co/tZc30gcTE0

The emergence of electronic instruments in 1960s America destabilized agency and subjectivity in music. Our book of the week traces how Cold War technoscience underwrote radical new visions of what it means to be a composer. By @ted_gordon on @ucpress https://t.co/BaBgeTrL45

Tackling the bloody roots of American football, this interview traces its evolution as a sport that glorifies violence while reflecting broader norms of aggression, with commodification shaping its identity. With Michael Oriard on @thisishellradio https://t.co/03fcE3mweh

Riley Gaines has turned into a leading figure of the anti-trans movement. Though widespread bans on trans athletes exist, this piece shows how Gaines’ sights go further—eroding trans rights under the guise of “protection." By @msjpauly in @MotherJones https://t.co/TP1hHjzywT

Indian speculative fiction evolved through Bengali "kalpavigyan" and post-Independence "scientifiction." Today, as this piece shows, Indian SF is finding its voice anew—bridging caste with universal storytelling. By @gautambhatia88 in @AlterMagIndia https://t.co/tFP2BQI848

@StevenKVogel @pasupdates This paper is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Political Economy: https://t.co/AzGxfktOWU