Santorum's Gifts
...us to their standards). As such, it's actually kind of a liberal complaint, if only in the classical sense: a rigid hierarchy is stifling the individual will and a political...
Speaking in Memes
...any bit of authenticity, any deviation from the script and scream it to the crowd, hashtag and all. Romney’s Big Bird statement was surely prepared with one meaning in mind,...
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things"
...of what face of feminism is likely to be beamed onto the main stage. And it might even make you a little bit testy at the ways you’ve been complicit...
Celluloid Coven
...evening and about The Craft: being just a little bit younger and less experienced than everyone, feeling excited but uncertain of myself, full of yearning, covetous of the fashion, yearning...
Centrifugal Women
Yūko Tsushima’s novel of a mother on the margins
A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
The Lossless Self
...genres, listeners were asked to select the highest quality version of each song from among three of the same recording encoded at different bit rates. How I yearned to ace...
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
...the digestion, and even if you just hang a tough fowl or a bit of goat in the tree among the leaves, it gets tender in no time, for there...
"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"
...bad name, we build a crap bell tower and splash on a bit of gilt and put it on list of the Top Sights You Have to See Before You...
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
...how many ways and how swiftly an institution moves to protect a violent man from a bit of a reputation pickle. Later, you will be protesting with other students who...
The "Sharing" Economy
...chief example) instead of commodities, and preach how business can “reimagine the larger system” of how they market products to integrate them more deeply into the social life of consumers....
Coming to My Senses
...and an Unlikely Bride by Alyssa Harad. Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © Alyssa Harad, 2012....
Beauty Blogosphere 11.9.12
...action after the Khroma team essentially ignored their cease-and-desist letter. Osiao growth: Estee Lauder marches forward with its wide-scale promotion of Osiao, the company's newly developed line for Asian consumers....
A Very Brief History of Viking Victuals
...Rhode Island matriarch’s stained glass window depicting the Viking fleet that discovered America found itself surpassed only by a statue, commissioned by another great New England lady, of Lief Erickson,...
City of the Moon
...of an effort to combat Israeli discourses of Palestinian foreignness and Jewish indigeneity that seek to religiously and historically legitimize the contemporary dispossession of Palestinians, and which will undoubtedly be...