All Presidents
...disturb us more, either because there would have been a greater number of total casualties in the invasion of Japan, or because the victims would have been of a different...
Sunday Reading
...and the Afropolitan Debate Jacob Remes: Photographing a family torn apart by the tsunami Has Japan Learned Anything from the 2011 Disaster? Fukushima evacuees in their own words, five years...
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...Jacob Remes: Context for Japan's snap election today "Racism, in this construct, is the result of ignorance rather than malice or structural inequalities." The inside/outside game in New...
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...my sitting" ReclaimUC: On the ongoing failure of the UC administration to confront racism on campus Public universities as tax shelters Revolutionary study against and beyond the university The lessons...
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...You” The purity of drones Google Writes Poetry on Subjects that People are Truly Interested In Smoke Screen and Smoke Signals Mapping Drone Strikes in Pakistan ReclaimUC Follow the money,...
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...Old Delhi The history and social impact of refrigeration ReclaimUC: Some rules for teachers How one of America's last free colleges screwed its students and betrayed its legacy Myths about...
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...Student Loans Immoral? ReclaimUC UC/CSU: Time for a fundamental rethinking of the role of the UC administration. Pepper-sprayed students from UC Davis win settlement worth $1 million with the UC...
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...the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Highlights from the AAA Israel-Palestine Task Force’s Final Report ReclaimUC: UC Davis spent at least $175,000 to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet The University...
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...in California's Punjabi-Mexican community On digital detox, and pathologizing connection RIP William Weaver, translator of Umberto Eco ReclaimUC: Open letter to the UC Berkeley community about the intimidation of grad...
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...merge in Bitcoin. The quiet desperation of the TaskRabbit. ReclaimUC : Your education is not more important than any other struggle Zombie MOOCs Teaching while black and blue The eliminative...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...questioning the existence of a god of any gender. My father was a bit more enthusiastic, going so far as to teach Sunday school, but even at 7 years old...
Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
School's Out Forever
...others.” Classrooms, tellingly, are usually depicted in popular culture as excruciatingly boring. Teachers post Calvin and Hobbes cartoons about the soul-crushing banality of compulsory attendance on the classroom walls. In...
Trophy Season
...for J to teach me, because it's a perfectly natural thing to see a person who's punching people and assume that person is kind of a jerk. As a teacher...
Northanger Abbey and antisocial pleasure
...the compromises involved with accommodating other people. That is, they teach us that we can be around others without caring about what they are feeling; the pleasures of ownership can...
Dear Mammy
...you don’t have the time but can you do me a HUGE favor? I teach Corregidora on Monday. Haven’t read it yet but I know you are familiar with the...