Spectre Journal

09/01/2026

Through an analysis of Star Wars, Anthony Lioi considers corporate permeability, fan agency, droid rebellion, revolutionary ecologies, and the movement of hope from art to audience

Through an analysis of Star Wars, Anthony Lioi considers corporate permeability, fan agency, droid rebellion, revolutionary ecologies, and the movement of hope from art to audience.

08/31/2026

https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/new-school-fired-faculty-austerity/

Jeremy Varon writing for Dissent Magazine .

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.

08/31/2026

Our ecosocialist editor Dan Boscov-Ellen on the structural constraints fueling capitalism's destruction of our future.

https://www.academia.edu/172470788/Apr%C3%A8s_moi_le_d%C3%A9luge_Capitalist_Time_and_the_Intergenerational_Ethics_of_Climate_Change

08/27/2026

DK Renton writing for Overland Literary Journal

"The hobbits are not the poor and the oppressed of the world", but theirs is "a world imagined as an act of taking sides against fascism — and it deserves to be recognised as such."

David Renton on Tolkien's anti-fascism.

https://overland.org.au/2026/08/jrr-tolkien-anti-fascist/

08/27/2026

ICYMI: Jin Haritaworn's critique of the racist response to the assault on Berlin Pride is still live on our website.

08/26/2026

Chelsea Kirk writing for Dissent Magazine

Few public health interventions have been as effective at protecting people from extreme heat as air conditioning. Yet the growing need for it is evidence of how badly the world has failed to decarbonize.

08/26/2026

"In a world that punishes throwing like a girl or crying like a woman, what might reclaiming, even weaponizing, the femme accomplish?"

Lori Marso reviews Sophie Lewis’ "Femmephilia" and Eileen G’Sell’s "Lipstick": http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/femme-feminism-lori-marso-sophie-lewis-eileen-gsell

08/25/2026

https://bit.ly/4gB7q9m

Dave Zirin writing for the Nation.

The trans women in sports panic is nothing but a stalking horse for permitting violence against trans people—and we should celebrate players like Natasha Cloud who say so.

08/25/2026

In “The Minneapolis Uprising and After,” Twin Cities DSA Co-Chair Aminah Sheikh (Aminah Sheikh) talks Operation Metro Surge, as well as tactics and strategies to build working class power in its aftermath.

https://spectrejournal.com/the-minneapolis-uprising-and-after/