America is a nation at war with its mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems about the desire for economic change, what’s unsurprisingly absent is what seems, to me, an obvious omission: an ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- Food, a ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- ...

No book has done more than Capital to explain the way the world works. Only a few centuries old, capitalism’s unprecedented mode of producing for human needs and generating wealth shapes present and ...

Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick continues her project of looking at how aesthetic categories shape labor, value, and everyday experience. Sianne Ngai. (Courtesy of Harvard University Press) Over ...