Mutant: Dialogues at the End of Democracy

Watching the scale, speed, and lawless ease with which some of the most storied postwar American institutions have been attacked and dismantled in the...

Few words in our democratic language invoke visions as paradoxical and as powerful as sacrifice. On the one hand, sacrifice recalls an archaic, ritualistic,...

We have so far traversed almost two dozen concepts at Mutant. And yet every word thought and spoken in these dialogues, it might be...

Often shrugged off as a passing sense of dejection in a world that has let us down, “disappointment” might be the most intransigent concept...

If freedom is the most molecular of human desires and hope the most fragile of human capacities, then fear is an all too human...

No idea in our political lexicon is as deeply mired in paradox as freedom. One is wholly alive, wholly human, we are often told,...