B A F F L E R

Salvos

6 The Shitshow in Glasgow Greetings from COP26 Eric Dean Wilson

116 Everywhere in Blockchains Surveying the Bitcoin barbarians Patrick McGinty

Outta Space

28 Dawn of the Space Lords Billionaires have big plans

to expand their dominion Corey Pein

46 Princes of Infinite Space Astrophysicist Avi Loeb joins a new generation of scientist blowhards Kyle Paoletta

38 Becoming Martian Space travel through the Middle Passage Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

54 Spoiling the Last Frontier Jamming space with junk Matthew King

Suborbital Blues

84 Get Thee to a Nunnery In Benedetta, cloistered sexuality breaks free Kit Duckworth 92 The Classroom and the Cell Who benefits from prison education? Daniel Fernandez

100 Chamber Music The resounding darkness of

America’s black sites Jonathan M. Katz

Outbursts

16 Cut-Rate Eden The failed bid to remake public

space in Lindsay’s New York Jessica Fletcher 64 Bricked and Mortared

The capitalist proxy war over New York City’s vacant storefronts Kevin Rogan

128 Absence of Malice

The aftermath of forced disappearance John Washington