Holing Up
...by this, as a child. If she doesn’t grow old, can she still learn? Will she die young? Will she rust up when Mike dies, or will he live forever...
Iron Gandhi
...personal triumph, but also his great political failure. The tactic [self-suffering] has no generalized value.” So what can we salvage from Gandhi that didn’t die with him? For Finkelstein, it’s...
The Body Always Remembers
...series. Cassandra Troyan: I am someone who comes from a very distinct mindset—Midwest salt-of-the-earth, work hard, work-until-you-die kind of mindset. For so long that has unconsciously affected the ways I...
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...
I'm With Stupid
...thousand-pointed star.” Having completed the virginal sacrifice, Rodrigo realizes what he might have accepted without the crushed viscera and traumatized naif, “The best thing is still this: not to die,...
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
Value-seeking surveillance and The Hunger Games
...of themselves as celebrities when they are selected to fight and most likely die, but the winners will know how to make the most of their immediate fame. And that...
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...
Sunday Reading
...Soldier—but waiting to die" "Richard Cohen's unfortunate career is the proper context to understand his column today and the wide outrage that's greeted it" "force schools to stop awarding credit...
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
For One Another
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Beauty Blogosphere 8.10.12
...roughly $15 million into keeping the channel afloat or letting it die its natural death. Goliath: Interesting Wall Street Journal piece about how mid-sized beauty brands get snatched up by...
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...
Hollywood's Drug War
...El Niño tells us; and if necessary, he’d rather die a clean death by his own hand. We note the absolute absence of U.S. law enforcement and the constructive absence...