Epistemology Kills
...On the other side, her lover and a strange man are talking. She has reason to suspect they’ve committed a murder, and realizes that it’s foolish to eavesdrop. What if...
Sunday Reading
...American urban neighborhoods Sweden decides that no one should die from traffic accidents. The geopolitical and macroeconomic effect of falling oil prices New York police officers' illegal slowdown: "If the...
Kill Your Martyrs
...a post, has his brain bludgeoned, and was left to die in the snow by killers who worked consciously and with premeditation. The right to live is not deserved. The...
No Man Righteous
...kill them and they won’t be able to die? On Slow Train Coming, Dylan paints a picture of an America in which every civic action must be understood as part...
Instructions for Young Manhood
...discussion on a subject that has always been classed as indecent.” It was his tragedy to die in 1956, too long before the Equinox missed connection even to predict it....
The sadness of the rich
...the rich. One actually cannot die from a broken heart, the rich have experimented on this front, as they did with trenches and Lorca in the past, or the generalized...
Symbolic Threats
Flag worship hides the violence and division that truly shape a nation
The Fire Next Time
...the real disaster. Securitizing an immured prison population without providing adequate assurance that they will not die passively, helplessly, and caged is a historical scar that implicates us all....
Hog Heaven
...in the cheap seats. "'The meat must be well bled, and to do that he must die slow. We shall lose a shilling a score if the meat is red...
In a Mirror, Darkly
...have invented a non-white world full of genital mutilators, sexual oppressors, and homophobes. Without the energizing illogic of race, whites, like pandas, might die of their lack of interest in...
Psychic Refuge
..."translate" cultural difference; for example, in some cultures people may not identify individualized emotions but identify them as part of collective, family or social feelings, which are not compatible with...
Not the One
...philosophically vindicated the concepts of resurrection and immortality, they remain irrelevant to the “crushing majority of humanity” whose mortal lives need uplift before they die. The Arab Spring gives the...
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part One
...to die in our fear and our loneliness and our vomit. And these rights, these just rights, we do not fight for them to be accorded to us; we take...
Sunday Reading
...Inside the Global Arms Trade Adrienne Rich's News in Verse Ludic Despair experiments with Libertarianism: E Pluribus Go F@#k Yourself and Live Free and/or Die! This Creepy App Isn’t Just...
City of Brotherly Love
...and the fags who die for their sex I mean sins. Without gay blood, this movie might have been considered porn, but thanks to three dead bodies it won an...
The Bitter Women of Japanese Noir
...it a lifestyle—a perpetual reaction against a hostile, unloving world. It’s better than lying down, accepting circumstances, and waiting to die. While it may not be a wholly sustainable source...