- Pre-Lie-bor Economist cover; post Lie-bor Economist cover; litigation-palooza; when you've lost "The American Banker"....
- “This is the banking industry’s tobacco moment,” says the chief executive of a multinational bank.
- “Banks have blown so much trust that there is no point crunching the numbers on them.”
- Southern discomfort.
- Research "conducted for reasons other than the pursuit of truth."
- Doctor Drew promotes Glaxo. Come try Wellbutrin, "the happy, horny, skinny pill!”
- Big food fattens profits with sugar-addled kids and colonizes colons abroad. What's the problem? They'll be good customers for Meridia.
- Why can't the two-thirds of working mothers in the US who earn less than $30,000 a year have it all?
- George Wallace police department stigmatizing "Professional Agitators;" reputational harm without due process? or badge of honor?
- Gleichschaltung around “Dolchstosslegende”? Godwin's corollary.
- Bug in the drug; beez in the capitation.
- What Dosas Tell Us About Ourselves
- The history of Italians in Egypt
- Rites of way: behind the pilgrimage revival
- Translating the Trinity for Muslims
- The history of South Asians in East Africa
- Cairo's central slum under threat
- The Illuminations of Birthright (on Taglit-Birthright Israel)
- Chronicler of the Caucasus
- Review of "Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes"
- Questions raised concerning US wish to search for missing WW2 airmen in northeast India
- Le Corbusier’s Gymnasium and the Preservation of Iraq’s Cultural Heritage
- Why I will not Celebrate the Independence of South Sudan
- Lontar manuscripts from Bali
- Poems in praise of the Salafi-jihadi effort in Mali
- How Qatar bought London
- What They Didn't Tell You About Afro-Peruvians
- Mixed Feelings: Not Allowed to Feel Lebanese
- Coloured houses in Kerala
- Cairo from Below: Information and debate on the urban future of Cairo
- On the impact of Vedic tradition and Sanskrit on Tamil life
- I bet you could be a convincing Cindy Sherman too: THIS TAL prologue
- Jennifer Allen kills it in Freize on aesthetics and politics
"violence comes from the sublime, perhaps our spiralling debts."
- Steven Henry Madoff IMPORTANT piece on Documenta 13. Which reminds me to take a look at this.
- Naomi Fry on "Magic Mike" for Artforum
- The Gallery of Lost Art has a pretty rad website
- Los Angeles for beginners
- Alexander Chee compares "I Am Love" to Brideshead Revisited
- Caring for our sidelines
- Kevin Nguyen interviews Rosecrans Baldwin
- Your favourite Faulkner, now with colours
- Ethan Stiefel retires from ABT. (And I want this writer to be my new best friend.)
- Madeleine Schwartz interviews Lucinda Williams for The Believer
- Lesbians are now allowed to donate blood in China, though "gay men will still find it difficult to donate."
- What do we want? All of it. When do we want it? At the same time.
- Just another incredible essay on leaving New York to move to LA
- James Parker reviews Larry Tye's history of the Superman franchise
Me:
- The Worst Job Ever
- Value
- First Terrorist: Review of Maia Ramnath’s Haj to Utopia
- People in Glass Closets: Anderson Cooper and Straight Responses to Coming Out
"When heterosexuals ask, “why does Anderson Cooper have to come out as gay?” I reply: “because you do not have to come out as heterosexual.”"
- Deforestation in a Civilized World
- Indian Voices of the Great War
- Don't Kill Your Darlings
- Major Rent Strike Against Millionaire Slumlord Catches Fire in Brooklyn
- Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
- The Arab World’s Fourths of July
- Norman Finkelstein’s disinformation about BDS
- A taste of politics.
- Africa News Roundup: Elections in Libya, ECOWAS Meets on Mali, Missed Deadlines in Somalia, and More
- Teacher’s Wages Garnished As U.S. Goes After Loan Default
- Absurd student debt has ended mass inclusion
- My Stephen King problem
- This is not the kids' problem
"What galls me about the current situation is that a structural problem of capitalism has been dumped into the lives of young people as their personal problem; even though emigration, the night anchor, and the startup can help some, the system remains intact..."
- Declaration of Independence
- Destroying Exhibition Prints: Wrapping It Up (And Tearing It Up) at Photoville
Dear Television, on Louie, Episode 3:1 Louie vs. Louis CK: Something Is Wrong and “Oh, all right, just go ahead!”
and on Louie, Episode 3:2: Jokes of Innocence and Jokes of Experience, or Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
- A Job Letter to the Poetry Foundation
- Kristof: The journalist as tourist
- Top 10 Independence Day Videos From Africa
- What's Sex Got To Do With It
- Why is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Banking Scandal?
- Why Americans should work less – the way Germans do
- Can You Be Fired for What You Post on Facebook?
- What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?
- Let it Bleed: Libertarianism and the Workplace
- The strange death of Yasser Arafat
- David Bromwich on Barack Obama
- Probably, if I was them, I'd have thought: yeah, I'd do it again, and probably get away with it next time": Reading the Riots study reveals police fears over further unrest
- The graduates of 2012 will survive only in the cracks of our economy
- Publishing vs. touchdowns at University of Missouri
- Tens of thousands march in Mexico City against electoral fraud:
Accusations of vote-buying began surfacing in June, but sharpened later when people rushed to grocery stores on the outskirts of Mexico City to redeem pre-paid gift cards worth about 100 pesos ($7.50). Many said they got the cards from PRI supporters before the elections...Simply giving away such gifts is not illegal under Mexican electoral law, as long as the expense is reported to electoral authorities. Giving gifts to influence votes is a crime, though is not generally viewed as grounds for overturning an election.
- "Your children are drowning, and what are you going to do about it?" on the privatization of the idea of education
- The Ones We've Lost: The Student Loan Debt Suicides (based on the numbers, there will be many, many more)
- Indybay Journalist Settles Lawsuit with UC Regents Over Improper Arrest, Imprisonment, & Seizure of Photos
- Jerry Brown and Mark Yudof bail on the CA Master Plan
- Gov. Brown's budget sacrifices the present, gambles the future
- Debtors' prisons are back
- The jobless class of 2012
- An interview with Kristian Williams: The police and the Occupy movement
- "In California, we are wearing the red square!"
- What now for the Mexican left?
- #YoSoy132, a Mexican student movement, protests the presidential election
- "Ummmm if I give you a phone card will you vote for me?"
- Beyond "Police Brutality": Racist State Violence and the University of California
- Workingman’s Constitution
- Count Robert de la Rouchfoucauld is dead at 88
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"They realize they're losing control, and they think the solution is simply to shout louder, and to say, 'No, you can't do that,' or, 'Not in my house, you won't,' or, 'Because I said so!' That's simply not going to work with an educated laity"If only all reporting on the Catholic Church recognized that bishops don’t speak for the laity. Feeling Under Siege, Catholic Leadership Shifts Right
- Students planning a global strike in October and November
- Eric Loomis on how the US is heading back to the Gilded Age.
- How not to do disaster relief or development: Hire a known sweatshop operator to open a giant low-wage garment factory in an environmentally sensitive location far away from the disaster zone.
“Haiti was founded by ex-slaves who overthrew a plantation system and people keep trying to get them to return to some form of plantation. There have been cycles of this type of project, where the idea is that foreign investment will modernize the country. But things have gotten progressively worse for Haitians.”
- On press and other photographer colluding with police. Toronto Police Return Seized Star Negatives from 2000 Queen’s Park Riot
- An introduction to Japanese partisan politics, explaining why the DPJ has been such a disappointment. Is the Democratic Party of Japan Just a Reincarnation of the LDP?