An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Andy Hines is the author of Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University (Chicago, 2022) and the editor of a keywords collection on higher education, to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He is the Associate Director of the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College. 
  • Discipline and Protest

    Discipline and Protest

    Andy Hines writes on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite U.S. universities. Despite institutions’ public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point.

  • The Myth of the Public Good

    The Myth of the Public Good

    Andy Hines traces the lines of power between U.S. educational and healthcare institutions. In both, campuses and corporatized administrations are loci of profit—from leveraging real estate and debt to driving “urban renewal,” redlining, and racist policing.