Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• British Pathé 
• Redefining College Affordability
• Critical U
• Some Brief Spoken Comments…
• The Women Behind the Wheel
• Slaves: The Capital behind Capitalism
• Composers Doing Normal Shit
• Bomb the Cloud
• The Rapture of the Nerds
• John Sexton Made Faculty Housing into a Duplex for his Son
• Paul Krugman and the Politics of Public Higher Education

Kerim Friedman:

• The Problem with “Privilege”
• 12-14% of us inherit in one lump sum what the bottom 50% take a lifetime to earn.
• Attacked on Twitter for my column on Modi
• How dangerous is pee in drinking water?
• We do not imagine Benjamin on the beach.
• Eleven Things You Did Not Know About Clarence Thomas
• Tesla vs. the Auto Dealers
• Education is Not the Answer
• Veterans and White Supremacy
• Liberal fascism is everywhere: Behold its shocking rise!
• The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want U.S. to intervene
• Bush far tougher than Obama on corporate America
• The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back
• The Pedagogies of Reading and Not Reading

Jacqui Shine:

• "Liberal arts nanny" is not code for "adjunct," but wouldn't that be the sickest burn?
• "Juking the stats" seemed so much more harmless when I thought it only happened on The Wire (and again)
• A profile of transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox
• Is poetry work?
• "The work is called poetry. Paranoia is a measure of its degree."
• The vulnerability Kickstarter campaigns require
• TNI's Own on, among other things, "Major Dad"
• A quartet of sharp women on Twitter, feminism, and "hashtag activism"
• Gorgeous portraits from Baltimore's ballroom scene
• A tribute to historian Stephanie M.H. Camp
• The suicide season
• From each according to her credit card limit, to each according to the sales at Forever 21
• (ARCHIVE 1989) Ellen Willis on excess and the possibilities of liberation
• Who made that intersectionality?

ReclaimUC:

Jacob Remes:

• Happy Easter
• “There is No Southern Baptist Position on Abortion.”
• The war against reproductive freedom in New Brunswick
• The Silencing of Cecily McMillan
• Stormfront users have killed 100 people in the past five years.
• "Terrorism" and whiteness
• The anatomy of an astroturf campaign
• "Quoting tweets instead of people is shitty journalism."
• The AFL-CIO's long and incomplete road to solidarity with Latin American unionists
• “He learned Western techniques of representation, not to celebrate the famous sites of the new capital, but to question modern bureaucratic aesthetics.”
• Market farming in Boston

Bint Battuta:

• The Ethnogenesis of the Crimean Tatars
• Barenboim & Said on Wagner & ideology
• Nationalism, internationalism & cosmopolitanism in India
• Empire, nationalism & South Asian labour in Iraq
• Gandhi & the Tamil community in South Africa
• The Dutch in Bengal
• The Danish in Calicut
• The Americans in Tangier
• An Ottoman envoy in Poland-Lithuania
• Christian missionaries in Bombay
• Religious-magical practices in late antique Egypt
• On preparing a body for burial
• A Hindu burial ground in Bangalore
• Jurisprudential authority in the Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman bibliophilia & Persian manuscripts
• Old Delhi’s Hazrat Shah Waliullah Public Library
• A Beginner's Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs
• A 17th-century Frenchman's poem in Ottoman Turkish
• Runaway slaves in Britain’s Indian Navy
• The popularity of Pehlwani wrestling in Dubai
• On the history of cinematographic practice in India
• MS Subbulakshmi & the modern Indian feminine ideal
• The history of nutmeg, mace & cloves in South Asia
• The geology of Westeros
• The meteorology of Westeros

Nathan Deuel:

• "Calm down. It's only a parking lot."
• "There's never any real indication in the Scriptures that Jesus had a home."
• "When we were there, there were fires still smoldering..We just can't throw people out."
• $57 for independent housing, $73 to sleep in a shelter, $164 locked in prison, or $519 spent in the ER.
• “When they take Tramadol, they want to see blood.”
• "That's right. Somebody called the cops on Jesus.
• "We got old."
• "A Northern California man has pleaded no contest to trying to throw his wife off a bridge last year."
• "The Army puts another 10 years on you, whether you like it or not."
• “We live very far away from any civilization, so they can’t even walk to the liquor store – praise the Lord."
• "Rich people like making money & spending it on dull, expensive things. That’s what they do–and they’re very good it"