We Were Promised Hot Tubs
...and that being grown up is one compromise, one sellout, one dreary responsibility after another. In fact, it's hard to think of anything in contemporary culture that celebrates adulthood today...
Lonely Highways in the Land of Jail
...show inspired Crystal Gayle to record “Midnight in the Desert,” which ended up in heavy rotation on the show as bumper music: Midnight in the desert and we’re listenin’ to...
Sunday Reading
...Innocent Man? Delusions of the Democrats The Limits of Alternative Africas Why I Left United Airlines Chinese characters and eyesight ReclaimUC: "Predictable" The University of California's failed funding model "The...
Sunday Reading
...Being-in-the-world Miguel James, Against the Police ReclaimUC: The college trap that keeps people poor Why is my curriculum white? Color-blind racism in the push to repeal affirmative action in higher...
We Mock What We Don't Understand
...pick up what you can along the way through life without anyone specifically trying to teach you anything useful. The action of Spies Like Us hinges on this theme. Fitz-Hume...
All The Hungry Children
...to quibble over such details? If these songs were an invitation to compassion, the surprise was that this invitation was made in the most abstract of idioms. If we were...
On the genre of “Raising Awareness about Someone Else’s Suffering.”
...Darfur. It is a place without history and without politics; simply a site where perpetrators clearly identifiable as ‘Arabs’ confront victims clearly identifiable as ‘Africans’. 6. Teju Cole’s twitter feed,...
Il Salvataggio Selvaggio
...is, he deviated from the correct line: He tried to be human at a time when such was ill-advised. The charts were right, and it was just bad behavior that...
Robots on an Escalator
...I noticed that with was inside the quotation marks as well. Never mind others' abandoning you; don't abandon yourself. I tried to delete my Twitter feed recently, but soon discovered...
Licensed to Ill
...feed a flu and starve a cold, the saying goes. I've never been one to insist on such distinctions. When I get sick, I feed. Nothing makes my appetite go...
Sunday Reading
...Slayer ReclaimUC: Fuck the kettles. We will boil our own water. Neoliberal Berkeley How college reproduces inequality Corporate open source and MOOCs Grad students' wives as a gendered labor category...
Sunday Reading
...kids who do everything wrong ReclaimUC: There are enough homeless schoolkids in San Francisco to fill 70 classrooms Two decades of "paper classes" Class shock: affect, mobility, and the adjunct...
Sunday Reading
...Manning: how keeping himself sane was taken as proof of madness Hey, Bartender: Dissertation Actualities and Atrocity Stories The Invisible Occupation Chinua Achebe At 82: “We Remember Differently” ReclaimUC: UC...
Gold Star, Brown Family
...the invasion into Iraq that killed this fallen Captain, whose parents she used as pawns. A war like this has done a lot to feed the same fear that bigots...
Death by Immortality
...attached to fertile gardens that will create and feed communities. How can I not mourn such a loss? It feels silly and self-indulgent to claim that my metaphors have been...
Sunday Reading
...(as Susie Cagle said: good on sports, bad on local politics. Pay attention: this will be on the test.) ReclaimUC: Problems always come from outside On grad school and "love"...