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

Anthony Ballas teaches composition and rhetoric at the University of Colorado at Denver and philosophy and social sciences at Northern New Mexico College. He has published numerous articles, reviews, and chapters on topics ranging from music, literature, film, and architecture, to COVID-19, class politics, internationalism, and the Haitian Revolution. Along with Kamran Baradaran, he is currently editing a volume on the global rise of the far right, and a collection of interviews with Gerald Horne. He is the host of the De Facto Podcast. You can find him on Twitter @tonyjballas.