- Best lecture on new media I heard this year.
- Uh oh, you just turned into data.
- Money as a memory, money as a simulacrum, money as a fact.
- Arrest/detention are hot; reasoning, not.
- Slaves to fashion; the factories govern, not Dhaka; Hong Kong horror stories.
- Land of 1,000 toxic lakes
- Perfectly hedged: Geithner "told New York mag it was 'extremely unlikely' he would take a position on Wall Street;" then joins private equity firm.
- Miracle of the immaculate deception; why does the "toxic culture" mitigating factor so rarely get applied to drug sentences?
- Big Data meets The Ice Storm.
- "Get off of my bike path!!"; new politics of surveillance.
- Eurocloud; does Quaero now seem like such a bad idea?
- On call or join starv-nation, since there is no economy.
- World future foretold: 55 billionaires, 500 million without sanitation.
- Collapsed Latvian market "awarded a national architecture prize when it was completed."
- HealthCare dot flub.
- Elephant orchestra.
- "An aerial target drone malfunctioned and struck a guided missile cruiser during training off Southern California."
- "Imagine the ideal designer dog."
- "Has he spent 50 years wishing he’d been killed instead of Kennedy? 'Of course,' he said. 'Of course.'"
- "Man in Saudi Arabia arrested for giving 'free hugs.'
- "What really happened to Duquesne adjunct Margaret Vojtko?"
- “‘I am a great believer in raw fruits,’ Mussolini said.”
- "I dare somebody to not like this."
- "New York City is not a Disneyland for vacationing Euro-vandals."
- What to wear to academic conferences
- Organized labor's own-goal in the Supreme Court
- What does "public" mean in "public university?"
- Police state
- Emperor Pedro II, "Brazil’s first Arabist"
- The history of the lithographic press in Iran
- Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment
- The politics of Muharram processions in late nineteenth-century Bombay
- The Imperial Gazetteer of India
- Jafar al-Askari: Modernization, Martial Discipline and Post-Ottoman Iraq
- A visit to the ruins of an Ottoman military hospital
- On conducting research in the archives of the Armenian Church in Lebanon
- The metaphorization of exile in the Hebrew Bible
- Introduction to Mahmood Mamdani's When Victims Become Killers
- Cemil Aydin on the emergence of Pan-Islamism
- Journeys of Faith: Haj pilgrimage in the Malay Archipelago before the 20th century
- The history of theatre in Yemen
- Sojourners and Settlers: Yemenis in America (1986)
- Growing up in California's Punjabi-Mexican community
- On digital detox, and pathologizing connection
- RIP William Weaver, translator of Umberto Eco
- Open letter to the UC Berkeley community about the intimidation of grad students on the eve of a historic strike
- Letter from Santa Barbara: Reviving the sympathy strike
- Professor Scab/Coward
- Anti-black racism, from San Jose State to University of Michigan and beyond
- "Public education should be free. If it isn't free, it isn't public education."
- Free education for all?
- Academia as drug gang
- "It seems disruption is hard when poor people insist on existing."
- Policing of universities and students intensifies in the UK
- Zimmerman is who we thought he was
- On "justice" and Renisha McBride
- Olfactory imperialism
A Mystery Sunday Reader:
- Irreplaceable time
- This Is What America's School Lunches Really Look Like
- Scripted Lessons make the classroom feel like a military drill, but they work (For Africans).
- Africa: The War On Africa
- "The catch is that you can’t actually go all out in ‘ethnic wear.’ Just pieces of flair.”
- Academics face the cybercreeps alone
- In Defense of Oakland
- Why Did So Many Black Women Die? Jonestown at 35
- Black Scholars: Explaining Your Work May Mean Fighting For It
- The Privilege of Expecting Community
- Student loan profits exceeded spending on the federal #Pell Grant last year.
- Modes of Existence
- How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
- Dr. Who at 50
- The Long Shadow of Chinese Blacklists on American Academe
- The American Police State
- Archaeologists Officially Declare Collective Sigh Over “Paleo Diet”
- A Keynesian or Marxist depression?
- When Americans Imitate Canadians
- Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions
- The Basic Income Should Not Replace All Other Programs
- Don't Give Up on the Lecture
- "Overall, I think that Diamond is like Mao: 70% right and 30% wrong."
- Conference Chic, or, How to Dress Like an Anthropologist
- The Insanity of Our Food Policy