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...
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...
The Resentment Machine
...that extend the status contests of childhood and adolescence into the gray years, and to one degree or another, most people play some version of this game for most of...
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
...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...
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...
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...
The Case for Medical Reparations
...a stool atop a raised platform inside this pit. Fed’s head remained above ground to monitor his reactions. Wet blankets were fastened over the hole to retain heat. For two...
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...
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...
Empire Records
...2,500 words and passages before releasing the manuscript. The published version faithfully reproduces the censor’s black marks. The United States government considers all statements by detainees at Guantánamo to be...
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Feasts Under the Bridge
...about the antifanatics just the other day. http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/06/anti-id_philoso060381.html What a coincidence.. NOT! Who's Online? Read more: Science20.com Other methods innovated by trolls include: 2. Doxxing. A troll will essentially...
Being Boys
Make masculinity and its traces quake at the impending danger creeping up on it
This Is Going to Hurt
Serious challenges to the status quo will be met with panic and repression
Postcard from the Internet
...com for the immigrant. But as I was moving through life saddened by the truth of this scattered sedimentation and exclusion from the world of heritage discovery, the internet came...