Staff at Wits University Threatened
...system. Every academic in South Africa should write to Adam Habib ([email protected]) to protest in the most forceful terms available against this act of professional intimidation against our colleagues....
Dream Workers
A review of Nabokov’s Dreams
Feast and Famine
...and the infrastructure of refrigeration. Food connects individual bodies to the circuits of production, but that linkage is never clean or even. Eating is messy, storage is messy, distribution is...
Can't Wait Forever
...forced on them. The need to formulate the idea and reality of reservations was necessary for the United States to reappropriate surrounding land for the purposes of infrastructure development, resource...
Achilles 2.0
...secular and largely peaceful uprisings. Both revolutions are the latest examples of the inextinguishable capacity of humankind to act collectively and consciously, in accordance with the principles of liberty and...
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Ego depleted
...convenience cannot be simply searching for something even more convenient. The human's capacity for rational choice, such as it is, is an alibi for capitalism precisely because it is the...
A Heaven of Hell
...they share with each other. Both their stage names, which each kept all his life, are collaborations. Hell describes searching for the perfect reference to a French poet, why nothing...
The Daddest Place on Earth
...guerrilla film portrays the surreal and sometimes horrific last day of a family vacation in Orlando. Sold in its promotional materials mostly as a sort of horror-sci-fi, the film’s generic...
Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project
...that over 30 million adults had received less than an eighth-grade education during the 1930s, and the WPA provided the infrastructure of schools and teachers that later contributed to America’s...
Emergency Supplies
...funding for art (unlike the US, for instance, which has for better or worse built up a system of corporate sponsorship), this represents a significant threat to the national infrastructure...
Frequently Asked Questions
...benefits such as free entry to TNI events, discounts on TNI merch and print productions, and a membership card. During May and June 2015, subscribers will also gain entry into...
Sunday Reading
...Tsiang “One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation And The Birth Of The Professional Police Force "Puerto Ricans are not only demanding an end to the forms of vulnerability that austerity measures have...
Jacqueline Madrano, Retired Homemaker and Volunteer, San Antonio
...to make not the latest styles, but something that would last. As the years went on, we could afford a little more, but I’d learned what styles look best on...
Mr. Kristof and His Others
...education level, secure employment, and firm citizenship status, Mr. Kristof is known for his spectacular overseas interventions as leading ambassador of The White Savior Industrial Complex. During such diplomatic missions...
Defacing Bush Colleges
...you. You will see generals to your left and confederate statesmen to your left. You'll pass a pretty fountain, and you might see the following inscription on a nice piece...