How Society Got a Sex Change
Ashley Frawley is senior editor of Compact. She is the author of two books, Semiotics of Happiness: Rhetorical Beginnings of a Public Problem and Sign…
How Democracies Cry: The Endless Wailing of Levitsky and Ziblatt
During the first Trump administration, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt put out a bestseller – How Democracies Die. It’s a work of comparative politics. You…
Studebaker Says Democracies Can Cry
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss Benjamin Studebaker's latest essay for Sublation Magazine in this week's Sublation Magazine podcast. Are …
Fear itself
This is Trump’s world, and we are just living in it. The only question is how we feel about this. FDR gave his famous speech,…
Tariffs and Thought Taboos
In this episode of the Cutronezone, the Last Marxist discusses his latest essay for Sublation Magazine and speculates on why COMPACT magazine rejected…
The Prophecy of Walter Kirn
Novelist and journalist Walter Kirn discusses his 2006 novel "The Unbinding" and answers questions like:
Was Holland Caufield a revolutionary?
What is…