At a time when much of the world is mired by recession, and unemployment is hitting record highs, it’s not surprising that we’d want experts unafraid to make sense of it all. Enter the pop-economist.
From a handful of tweets, to a storify collecting them, to blog posts, to an article in Inside Higher Ed documenting it as "news": “The Academic Twitterazi” had now become a thing.
When country musicians tried to protect the integrity of their genre in the 1970s against the likes of John Denver, it wasn’t merely aesthetic protest but an organized labor movement
If an animal has previously suffered escapable shock, and then she suffers inescapable shock, she will be happier than if she has previously not suffered escapable shock — for if she hasn’t, she will only know about being shocked inescapably.
A beautiful woman has to pretend she isn't being watched; a funny woman proves consistently that she's aware of herself in the world. It leads to a viewer wondering, “Wait, so are you aware that each hair toss drives people wild too? How much of this are you picking up on?”
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Helen Gurley Brown, long-time Cosmopolitan editor, was the most influential women’s magazine editor of her generation, and arguably, of all time. Cat Marnell, Moe Tkacik, Edith…
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.