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A black king lies on its side on a chessboard while four white pieces stand upright in soft focus behind it.

Always Cooperate: Game Theory and Partisan Politics in Samuel Alito's Post-Racial Fantasy, or... notes on asymmetric disarmament after Callais

A fragmentary ancient Roman bronze statue of a discus thrower in mid-throw pose, its surface heavily cracked and patinated green.

Topping from the Bottom: The Right-Wing Concepts of Masculinity and Strength as Slave Morality in Lord Drag

The Basilica of St. Augustine rises on a hilltop in Annaba, Algeria

The Sword and the Necessity: On the Vice President's Augustinian Embarrassment

David Dee Delgado's image of Brooklyn diners watching the Trump speech live.

Stage Four, Part Two: What the Map Costs

The Psychoanalytic of Bimbo Bryon Noem and His Wife's Performative Cruelty

Stage Four: The Trump Simulacrum and Attention Economy Decay

Stage Four: The Trump Simulacrum and Attention Economy Decay