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new to nonsite articlesdelegitimizing the administrative stateby jenny breendespite the glaring irony, gorsuch is not talking about judges when he discusses “unaccountable ‘ministers.’” he is instead talking about civil servants in government agencies. in gorsuch’s view, government agencies pose unique dangers to the american republic. accordingly, it is essential that courts—and only courts—be tasked with reining in the power of agencies lest the power they wield—to regulate power plants emissions, to establish health and safety standards during a pandemic—destroy the lives of individual americans.read morearticles issue #39the obscurantist international: in search for populisms’ plane of immanenceby jan sowa & krzysztof wolanskimay 11, 2022articles issue #39mary ellen solt: concretizing 1968by chris gortmakermay 11, 2022issue #39 the tanksimon hantaï and the reserves of paintingby matthew bowman, harry cooper, gordon hughes & molly warnockmay 11, 2022articles issue #39cézanne’s sensationsby éric michaudmay 11, 2022articles issue #39“let me go get my big white man”: the clientelist foundation of contemporary antiracist politicsby adolph reed, jr.may 11, 2022articles issue #39contemporary race theory and the problem of history: a critiqueby zine magubanemay 11, 2022read the current issue articles issue #39cézanne’s sensationsby éric michaudall of cézanne’s “theory” seems to come down to what he calls “realization,” an operation of conversion that he was the first modern painter to attempt. critics had a premonition of it, condemning his “too exclusive love of yellow” and warning the public: “if you visit the exhibition with a woman in an interesting position, pass quickly by the portrait of a man by mr. cézanne… that strange-looking head, the color of boot cuffs, could make too vivid an impression on her and give her fruit yellow fever