Sunday Reading
...students and employees called up to reserve duty,” the institution says in 24 July statement on its official website. Meanwhile, a notice circulated at Hebrew University announces a collection for...
Kenya Will Never Was
...website, that one of the largest sources of funding is Japan, but the Kenyans’ refrain of “The West...” still remains. The journalists sound baffled. One chants the party line: Westerners...
“I’m Going to be Buried in a Scarf”
An interview with recently deceased anarchist journalist Paul Z. Simons about the Rojava revolution in Syria. The accompanying photos are captioned with his comments.
An American Education:
Notes from UATX
Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin, the campus of the "anti woke" commentariat. Student names have been anonymized.
Tree Sitting
...fee of about ~$3k, and half-time students pay half that, also mandatory. Unless I’m misreading that website, students wouldn’t pay less if they took a cheaper class online. They’d just...
Sunday Reading: August 6, 2023
...Bari Weiss's website. The reactionary right-wing being racist, well-funded, and laundered through institutional affiliations and establishment media won't be news to many of us. But the way these figures prop...
Sunday Reading
...of purloined bitcoin that’s floating around out there, not one Satoshi of it has been spent" lisafrankfurtschool.tumblr.com cosmarxpolitan.tumblr.com Jacob Remes: Wearing more The sad and rich life and death of...
Blogging the Caine Prize 2012
...The Caine Prize gets its share of criticism — see Ikhide Ikheloa, for example — but I’ve come across a lot of writers that I like a lot by reading...
Resistance in the Neoliberal City
...rent housing in the United States. But even putting nostalgia aside, it was not always this way. The second coming of dot-com wealth, venture capital, and neoliberal development has eviscerated...
The More Things Change
...MyNewOrleans.com. You can reach him at [email protected]. Josh Neufeld is a cartoonist & illustrator and the creator of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a nonfiction graphic novel about seven...
Protected: Creating a Blog
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Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn
...Jerome Charyn and Michael Seidenberg in conversation at Brazenhead Books. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Part 1: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/CharynMichaelFinalpt1.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome Charyn Part 1] Part 2: [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2013/03/JandMfullpt2_1-2.mp3|titles=Conversations at Brazenhead: Jerome...
Single Servings
...notes that he “has immersed himself in the details of both Match.com and IAC’s search units, both big cash generators.” Dating sites know that their product typically reveals to users...
Fact Check!
...a blog-turned-book, regrettheerror.com, and has a column on Poynter.org. Silverman calls fact-checking the "new American pastime" and is a serious and measured commentator: He appears genuinely concerned with setting the...
An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America
...and civics to green card holders. Her writing has appeared in Time.com, Atlas Obscura, Untapped Cities, and Hazlitt. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of...
Capitalism with a Fluffy Face
The latest way tech companies have promoted their questionable self-image as the antithesis of old, evil corporations has been to open their offices not to unions, but to dogs