Sunday Reading
...type. You feed off the thrill of inference and small, instructor-led discussion." "Every day I see people on the worst of the worst street, San Julian, sweeping up." "A sketchy...
Value-seeking surveillance and The Hunger Games
...that everyone is simply supposed to know about. (Mad Men also springs to mind after the past weekend, when my Twitter feed was full of people complaining about Mad Men...
Epistemology Kills
...on the topic Marías is exhausting. We want to know. This wanting to know isn’t curiosity, exactly, but a slower-burning interest; we can feed it as fuel to our patience....
Wages Versus Progress
...stagnate. It doesn’t say, feed families or obviate want or improve lives and opportunities for wage earners. The idea that fair wages should be a normal part of the calculation...
Drama for Cannibals
...premised on the idea that “human beings are inherently good, and that although convicted criminals have committed heinous crimes against other human beings, this inherent goodness still lives deep within...
Sunday Reading
...and easy to manipulate" "The TSA's Instagram feed shows the artistic side of confiscated material" ""cyber" has, in a way, returned to its dark science-fiction roots" "What the NSA needs...
Heroine: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
...emotions—anger, aggression, lust, the joy of physical exertion—that feed all freedom movements, and it is no accident that that women musicians have been denied access to this power.” Male fans...
Kenya’s Three Tribes
...for twenty shillings at a time, so they can feed their families for one more day. Philo Ikonya, president of PEN Kenya, and other activists stands outside Kenya's Parliament arms...
An Infantile Disorder
...They take refuge in the home because “the household is the only place they feel like they belong.” But it’s also where someone will feed them. (It’s not uncommon for...
Working With Kids
...despite the nationwide, systemic policy failure to actually support, feed, provide medical care for, and educate them all. Conversations about children have always felt to me like conversations about a...
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
...“considered myself” is meaningless. I have done jack shit to actually show up for people of color. I read the thinkpieces and make my Twitter feed diverse and try to...
Hollywood's Drug War
...-- a murderer -- is one of the good guys. We watch the formerly flush assassin try to feed his family on beans and salsa because the Salvadoran justice system...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty
...The maqlouba isn't ready yet and though my stomach is growling, I feed on dialogue instead. I talk at length to a friend's wife about the Muslim ban, and why...
Sunday Reading
...Love Letter to The Moth This Twitter feed Things to do in Brooklyn this weekend Me: what a honeybee looks like as it loses its stinger "The cargo cult of...
The Potato System
...on potatoes being carried to feed passengers on clipper ships sailing from America to Ireland. "Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially...
Liberation:Transmission
...enslaved. News that would feed dreams. News that would create new energy. News that would fuel alternative ways of imagining being and being together. Revolution Clusters: Haiti, the U.S., France....