Sunday Reading
...“Do the Right Thing” tells us 25 years later The Trap in the Supreme Court’s “Narrow” Decisions Why Harris and Hobby Lobby Spell Disaster for Working Women The 8 Best...
Sunday Reading: August 20, 2023
...with Malcom Harris: In an interview with the Guardian, Harris is asked how he came to understand the historical circumstances which created Silicon Valley. He responds with the following: “I...
Further Reading
...Looks Back at the Rochester Riot of 1964 Open Telegram That Malcolm X Sent to the American Nazi Party Before Going to Selma The Black Commentator on Malcolm X’s Contribution...
"Art"
...authorize a general devaluing of labor by making it seem as though ‘creativity’ is its own reward.” Pitting yellowism against officially-sanctioned protest art in “U.S.Ai,” Malcolm Harris describes the myopic,...
Editors' Note, Vol. 39: Faith
...because of their modernity. And Malcolm Harris reviews the political philosopher Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation, identifying the Jewish right to Palestine as the shaky ground on which Walzer’s...
Faith
...and bulwark against atavistic Palestinians or Orthodox Jews, the figure who can safeguard the ancient ties of belonging to the land precisely because of their modernity. And Malcolm Harris reviews...
Vol. 19 Editors' Note: "Art"
...own reward.” Pitting yellowism against officially-sanctioned protest art in “U.S.Ai,” Malcolm Harris describes the myopic, short-circuited logic at work in the art world: “You can put an iPad in a...
Safe Space
...about fascism in the minds of critics on the left and right whose minds imagined the slippery slope that would be created by taking student’s concerns seriously. As Malcolm Harris...
Prefab Freedom
ATV use has soared since the pandemic started. But this new off-roading trend also rehearses familiar myths about the American west and American freedom.
A Snowpiercer Thinkpiece, Not to Be Taken Too Seriously, But For Very Serious Reasons
...to find, a system based on that form of consumption is impossible to justify; as Ed Harris notes, while frying up a nice piece of what I would like to...
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You
...to Malcolm X, forward to Reagan-era hip-hop, and then arrives ringside with Muhammad Ali. In each case, he takes a familiar story and finds within it the Third World Muslim...
Swarovski Kristallnacht
...took a more direct approach with their song “Nazi Punks Fuck Off.” In England, punk fashion was centered around SEX, the store owned and operated by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne...
Beyond MLK
...is that King’s turn to radicalism was hard won. “In some ways,” Michael Eric Dyson has written, “King’s change was even more startling and consequential than Malcolm X’s…what is little...
Aging
...revolutionary energies began to be turned back by the forces of reaction. In Malcolm Harris’s review of Don DeLillo’s latest novel—the postmodernist whose efforts to chronicle that reaction predicted the...
America Dads: Louis CK and Barack Obama
...dad was my dad. It should not be because that was the only kind of relationship I could imagine. Perhaps it means other things, of course. But Malcolm Harris likes...