Sunday Reading
..."Civility is the discourse of power." The order of civility "[I]n just the last few years, there were over 200 cases of people at universities being reprimanded, fired, or even...
You Weren’t Educated, You Were Trained
...aware that this inexhaustible document already possessed the answers to any and every test we might be presented with. This was its power, its menace. We knew, intuitively, that it...
Host in the Shell
...will always tempt us to project our fears onto other people.” For Biss, vaccination transcends medicine, for it “allows us to extend some of the power and privilege of our...
Baby Daddies and Dandy Scandals
...with him in a ghastly, but mercifully untelevised, English aristo version of the Playboy Mansion.) A rollicking media-fueled sex scandal at a time when they barely existed, l’affaire Mordaunt gave...
Sunday Reading
...Language and Education under Early Islam Linguistic and Textual Complexity in First-Century Christianity On Judeo-Persian language and literature (Persian written in Hebrew script) On Aljamiado texts (Spanish written in Arabic...
Party TV
...languages, and over 10,000 employees worldwide, CCTV is heeding ex-President Hu Jintao's exhortation to “go out,” spearheading the Party’s drive to rack up soft power around the globe by expanding...
Sunday Reading
...mats, high-end camera lenses, a painted bust of Jesus Christ. "He's been here such a long time." Kitabet: “We live in capitalism; its power seems inescapable. So did the divine...
Coming to Las Vegas
...poisons babies before they’re born? What constitutes protection, healing, and repair? We read that Selah knows things that you simply cannot know “until you see this power bloom in a...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Hollow Inside
...around and about each other, communicating only by their externalized behavior. Words become mere sounds, concealing more than they convey; gestures become mere physiological twitches; bodies touch without warmth. Each...
Hanford Idyll
...to $15.2 billion, and the Department of Energy transferred the project to Bechtel, a construction company that previously worked on the Hoover Dam and the London Underground. The company started...
In the Water
...the Hudson, and the other, processing at Ellis Island. The stories about immigrant names misspelled, the invasive examinations, the literacy tests, are the first examples of immigration that American schoolchildren...
Sunday Reading
...to write about higher education A map of American student debt An isochronic map of the world, c. 1914 Kerim Friedman: Donald Trump's repetitive rhetoric Three Bullshit Tests for Continental...
The Revolution Goes Kablooie
...by the Western media working inside Cairo — the “virginity tests,” the military trials, the rise of political Islam — giving each a cursory shout-out in the plot the way...
The Birth of a Beauty Criticism
...I was attempting to do—Wild Beauty, Makeup Museum, and Zara Stone come to mind; I found like-minded fashion bloggers whose writing seemed similar to mine. But what really changed was...
Working With Kids
...level of relative autonomy is restricted by broader power systems. Under-resourced schools populated by children of color, with their barred windows and metal detectors and police officers, more closely resemble...