Political Language on Police States and Political Language
...have no conjuring power "when we really do need them." Ok, sure. I will concede that point. But let me now compartmentalize and diminish the consequences of the point Exum...
Kill Your Martyrs
...we in the class nor our teacher seemed to know. Had I known at the time, in my teenaged righteousness, I would have been outraged. Now, I’m less sure. Even...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.1.12
...of the Ace hotel is "a more discreet, insider way of wearing the 'I Heart NY' T-shirt," says the founder of a custom products company. Because surely, if you are...
Death Is Not The End
...a point of no return: Tolstoy’s writing is no longer in dialogue with the Church, but is an outright rejection of the Church as a valid moral institution. According to...
Together We Are None
...there’s no allotted space for a master lip-syncher to do that, so we implicitly say it’s not valid. But you have to ask why. These guys were incredibly convincing performers...
The Art Of Fiction: On Writing And Revenge
...when I am, on the page, very combative, very hostile. That’s true even when I write to praise, as is often the case. If I write about Colette, as I...
Sunday Reading
...are truly committed to diversity, they have to start paying attention to the rural poor.” “examples of the clumsy wielding of real power, which is organized with precision by the...
Sunday Reading
...black voices on crime" Why did Soul City fail?[radio 33:59] Kerim Friedman: Palestinian Anthropologists Speak: Dina Omar Israeli Violations of Palestinian Academic Freedom & Access to Education Is an Academic...
Sunday Reading
...Erasures Excerpts from an ongoing discussion of race & sexual harassment in the online science community: Academic Whores and #RipplesOfDoubt The Worst Part is Not Scar Tissue Mentors and Sex:...
Crypto Vegas
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The Loser Wins
...Winkelvoss twins’ inability to protect their positions makes them weak and undeserving of their privileges in a more “meritocratic” or “natural” free market system. The Social Network is a conservative...
Sunday Reading
...and Cairo in America The History of Cartography (University of Chicago Press) in PDF format The history of National Geographic's cartographic typefaces On designing an Arabic/Persian typeface A comparison of...
Sunday Reading
...hound of hell. Kierkegaard's frenemies. Lucky duckie, you're the one; exposing systemic corruption. Helping drug dealers? Better be a bank. Will pilots soon be obsolete? Targeted ads coming to a...
The New Inquiry
...hope you will enjoy what we’ve done. A lot of work went into it and we're proud of the result. All our content will remain free on the site. And...
Sunday Reading
...Jacqui Shine: Turns out he never jumped on that couch after all ... but you have to be ready for that publicity game. The passion (?) of Barbara...
Sunday Reading
...veto power as been hired for $1,000 a day plus a free car. Is student debt the choke point of finance capitalism? Pay gap makes student debt burden worse for...