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Reuben Dendinger reflects on the broken promises of an American academic career—burdensome loans, adjunct and contingent jobs, and the meritocratic myth.

Devin Thomas O’Shea shares the saga of the scions of the Anheuser-Busch brewery empire: their arrogance, their self-mythologizing reality show, and the impunity afforded them for their crimes.

Ten years on, Katie Myers reconnects with five members of Occupy D.C. and revisits its promise, its destruction, and the trials of intervening years. “We have to wonder when it’s all going to slip again, toward some next great cry out into the world.”

Through the eyes of its organizers, Raechel Anne Jolie looks back on the lessons and failures of ‘00s anti-war activism—on direct action and peaceful protest, co-optation, and the forgotten histories of a formative movement.

Innocent Chizaram Ilo writes on his childhood in southern Nigeria, where the influence of conservative Christianity, intermingled with the traditional practices of the Igbo people, has created a receptivity to anti-Palestinian beliefs.

Italian philosopher Marcello Tarì examines the tension between everyday revolutionary acts and the impending sense of catastrophe that marks our current moment. Excerpted from an introduction to Tarì’s book, There is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution.