On July 20, 2021, World’s Richest Man and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos launched himself into space for an 11-minute self-funded joy ride. Americans, and humans in general, tend to be awestruck and filled with joyous wonder about space travel and its promise of discovery,...
In “Having and Being Had,” her groundbreaking book on capitalism, consumption, and our own participation in the system, Eula Biss reaches back into the archives to define the word precarious – “depending on the will or pleasure of another.” But just who joins the...
By Jennifer Tennant Faces blurry with a few minutes of sleep after a long day, my eight-year-old daughters clomp down the stairs. “Mommy, the TV’s too loud.” I pause the show, tuck them back into bed,...
