There is no such thing as “The Court of Public Opinion” (but maybe there should be).
...do not—we should respect the fact that it paints a very damning picture. I’m not interested in punishing Woody Allen. I have no power to do so, and I didn’t...
On Privatization and Brutalizing Campuses
...don’t educate students. And despite vigorous opposition from the faculty senate, a pilot version of the online UC is currently in progress.The project is also going forward despite, it should...
The Standing Vote
...a national issue (if indeed it has). This silence-as-violence is the space that Native Americans occupy in the US public imagination. In one version of the story, Native Americans are...
The Invented Persians
...children who don’t see people around them working apparently grow up to be lazy adults, who are on welfare, dependent on the state, and have no understanding of how to...
Dixie Be Damned, But Damn Everything Too
An Interview with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley.
Unfree Labor
...like David Brooks, the Ivy League reproduced a narrow power elite with legacy admissions and anti-Jewish quotas, but increased financial aid and the hegemony of the origins-blind SAT mean that...
Kenya's Security Act: A Map
...do not already have specified penalties from KES 10,000/- to KES 100,000/- The Investment Promotion Act Clause 41 amends the Investment Promotion Act by giving the Cabinet Secretary more power....
Sparkle, Shirley, Sparkle!
...growth charts and physiognomic tests to measure infants’ physical and mental development in Better Baby competitions. After the U.S. Children’s Bureau founded National Baby Week in 1914 in an effort...
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)
...and bonne vivante. Peruse her works at LisaFerber.com, and keep an eye out for her upcoming web series, The Sisters Plotz. The funny thing about glamour is that an...
Cooking Class
...cross-sections of, well, hundreds of candy bars (scandybars.com). “Nothing is beautiful or loving or political,” said Deleuze, “aside from underground stems and aerial roots, adventitious growth and rhizomes.” The rhizomatic...
Get Your Strike On
...y vístanse de rojo como un lazo rojo o ropa de color roja Manifiéstate en contra de los roles de géneros • Contact/Contactenos en: [email protected] [email protected] womenstrikeus.org @womenstrikeus facebook.com/womenstrikenyc/...
Natural's Not In It
...in the absence of pre-historic leopards. Grok, a 30-year-old hunter-gatherer, is upheld by marksdailyapple.com, a leading Paleo site, as a Paleo a role model. Grok, a caveman composite, is “simultaneously...
Sunday Reading
...Mere Physical Masses for Data for Harvesting Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers' DNA Bodies without Skin Scores of scores: How companies are reducing consumers to single...
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...
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
Why Witches Can’t Have It All
...puckish smile, and her preference for overstuffed couches and fresh flowers, would imply pretense and, later, sickness. However in Ephron’s version, Isabel’s persona and Kidman’s performance of it seem entirely...