- Wall Street grandees need to have their net worth on the line.
- Rethinking the corporation after Enron, Goldman, and Milken.
- Peachtree pooh-bahs.
- High-speed Internet only for rich people.
- A whisteblower's tale: bank inner circle "operated like the mob."
- Police vs. photographers.
- Wealth-worship as self-concern.
- Bill Black explains 21st Century Economics.
- Robert Pollin on full employment.
- Dementia profit centers.
- Proposal: start evolution in distant galaxies.
- "I'm so tired of this. Aren't you?" is my new internet mantra. *
If “the literary world” excludes “regular” readers—if it really just means other writers, editors at literary journals and magazines, editors at presses both small and large, agents, publicists, sales forces, independent bookstore owners and big chain bookstore employees, distributors, professors and students in M.F.A. and Ph.D. programs in creative writing, book cover designers and typesetters, and the rest—then I’ll go a step beyond Lennon and suggest that the literary world might fit into an even smaller college town. Think Bloomington, Indiana.
- Louis MacNeice is romantic. *
- Pussy Riot and feminist anger. *
- On Antigone: "The nick of time is the essence of comedy; in tragedy it does not exist." *
- A key difference between book & TV criticism. *
- Man edits The Woman's World, then writes The Picture of Dorian Gray *
- Don't worry, we're far from the end of men. (Or, y'know, worry.) *
- A childhood (cartoon) hero. *
- ToS;DR. *
- Paul Ryan's Epic Drum Solo
- Victims Still Out in the Cold
- "In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat"
- Return of the Native
- People & Power - What happened in Houla? (video)
- Beyond the Chaos at Marikana
- On Growth, Sugar and the Forest
- Tom Morello on Paul Ryan
?"I wonder what Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "Fuck the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!"
- Manic Pixie Dream Dissidents
- "I am gratefully bewildered by Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn’s essays on letter-writing. That is a polite way of saying I don’t know what she’s talking about."
- Detroit’s Wayne State University Looks to Destroy Tenure
- Step Up’s franchised revolution
- V.S. Naipaul is 80, still a racist dickhead
- Oscar Wilde edits a fashion magazine
- Bill Murray reads Wallace Stevens
- Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings
- Where the Student Loan Crisis came from
- The Port of Goldman Sachs
- What's Gone Wrong at the Guardian?
- Last Morning in Al Hamra
- Crisis Summaries
- The End of Gore Vidal
- An Update on the People's Library and A Week After Police Crackdown, Library Still Operating
- Oakland, An Incubator for Meaningful Local Politics
- From the Around Latin America round-up, at America's South and North:
Student protests continue and are escalating in Chile, where dozens were injured in clashes with police. Additionally, 139 students who had occupied buildings were violently arrested Thursday. The arrests have not brought an end to the protests, however, as students occupied another building in protest in response to the original arrests, even while Santiago’s mayor has threatened to cancel the scholarships of protesters. Students have been protesting for over a year, demanding educational reforms and opposing efforts to privatize education.