The Paper Chase
...Michael Hudson as his economic advisor, tried to evangelize MMT ideas during a presidential campaign, to no avail. Even when Paul Krugman addresses MMT, which he does, rarely, he oscillates...
May Day 2012
...officials have tried to control the student movement. Mainstream Québec media – and by extension the majority of Canadian media that pick up from these sources – have insisted on...
Values, Stereotypes, and Big Feelings: Compliments, Part II
...recognize that it has value. Otherwise, the compliment isn’t complete.) The consequence here is that compliments can tell us a good deal about what we as a culture actually value....
"Against Literary Passports: the Many Languages of African Literature" (Conference Paper)
...continent’s cultures and societies, it’s important to think about the kinds of diversity that the colonial mind could not comprehend, and sought to stamp out. For the British and the...
This Week in Art Crime
...call on the french government to do the right thing and listen to our petition that we have sent to the ministers of culture, foreign relations and justice." (via)...
Occupy A Bank
...to start sitting down inside those banks. #OccupyLA has already tried this, and members got arrested after trying to cash a $673 billion dollar check to “the people of California.”...
Routine Repairs & Earth & Dust
...tried to slit her wrists is still resting, her painter husband’s mother now taking care of their 2 young children. This is that old N.Y. dread—the frenetic running, the bleak...
Les Trahisons des Clercs
...procedures of prediction another. The Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, forwarded the idea that criminals may be distinguished by certain shared physiognomic traits. Francis Galton tried to define these traits by...
Beauty Work and Intrinsic Motivation
...not particularly helpful advice to someone who's trying to make exercise a habit, though, so I tried to remember what got me to the point of workouts being habit. A...
Money, Sex and Tweens
...what you want. Or perhaps expand what you want. JC: Not me. I found it really calcified my interests. I imagine that I tried different things for about six months...
Osmic Frequencies
...toluene-like” and with a stronger bitter almond character than normal acetophenone. A 2004 study published in Nature Neuroscience tried to refute this claim. The Rockefeller olfactory neurogeneticists Andreas Keller and...
Editors' Note, Vol. 30: Volume 30
...discontents, reactionary messaging in mass culture, the art and publishing world and their rituals, love as a problem, surveillance and affect, apps and neoliberalism. Essentially: how can we express ourselves,...
The Real Image
...that I, too, was gaining access to more of my brain than ordinary mortals could, and that if I tried, I could destroy objects with the power of my mind....
Lucky Number Seven
...off as thoughtful and kind — it’s clear that he wants to use his good fortune to help others — and lives out his commitment to social justice by teaching...
Kenya's Security Act: Citizen Reporting
...finding out the truth in Kenya and trying to hold the state accountable. Key Changes in the Security Bill Kenya’s mainstream media has tried to argue that the Security Act...
The Suit
...time; it is both correct and uninspiring. It needn’t have given me pause, except the intellectual seemed troubled, too. In the essay’s closing passages, he tried to imagine another way...