Archive - Flux

The myth of mind uploading

Minds are what bodies do

15 hrs ago • Johannes Jaeger

Separation of church and state is an all-American idea

Freedom of conscience works for everyone—religious as well as non-religious

Jul 3

Welcome swag for white South African ‘refugees’ reveals blatant racism of Trump’s asylum policy

The Trump administration plans to provide bespoke gift bags to Afrikaners, including materials that encourage an embrace of white supremacy as the ideal…

Jul 1 • Jim Carroll

June 2026

No one thinks Midjourney is alive, that's a big problem for people who think that Claude is

Artificial intelligence and the textual nude

Jun 30 • Matthew Sheffield

Juneteenth and the failure of Reconstruction are stories we must never forget

The lives of people like Joshua Houston and Samuel Walker Houston reveal that justice must be a perpetual struggle

Jun 19

The radical Christian nationalist plan to colonize rural America and establish sharia-style governance

Pastor Raymond Simmons’s calls on Christians to eliminate religious freedom and establish adultery and abortion as capital crimes

Jun 18 • Peter Montgomery

As men struggle, progressives should offer answers and solutions

Reactionaries shouldn’t be the only ones speaking to men during a time of social upheaval and economic injustice

Jun 17

Antivax arguments haven’t gotten any better in 300 years

Science writer Thomas Levenson on his new book, ‘A Pox on Fools,’ a history of anti-vaccine movements

Jun 16 • Matthew Sheffield

1:02:15

In Texas senate showdown, Ken Paxton’s rhetoric about masculinity could backfire

The race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico suggests that taking on MAGA requires Democrats to fully engage in fights over values as well as policy…

Jun 11 • Jim Carroll

The U.S. is inexperienced as a democracy, and it’s showing

Historian Lisa Corrigan on how Democrats haven’t learned how to wield power to preserve democracy

Jun 9 • Matthew Sheffield

52:03

Worldwide trust in the U.S. has plummeted since Trump returned as president

Israel, Hungary among few countries that trust Trump more than Biden

Jun 1

May 2026

Trump is at record-low approval, but Democrats have not been able to build their own public support

Historian Rick Perlstein on how America got this way

May 30 • Matthew Sheffield

1:03:52

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