Sins of the Father
...cigars, sports cars, and being boss. From the beginning of Breaking Bad, Walt’s masculinity is challenged. Teaching high school (a common symbol of impotence in TV shows and film) insults...
Sunday Reading
...orthodoxy among seismologists is that earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings kill people.” Remembering the Armenian Genocide Speech for the Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemoration in Istanbul The Epic of a Genocide...
Un(der)known Writers: Silvia Federici
...(circa 1010), after the ritual question– "Have you done what some women are accustomed to do when they fornicate and wish to kill their offspring, act with their maleficia, and...
Bad Faith
...“August 4, 2014,” an excerpt from They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, a recently published collection of essays by Hanif Abdurraqib, a quotidian telling of an airplane journey...
Incalculable Loss
...from which algorithms automatically generate kill lists made up of nodes that deviate from the cluster of normal activity patterns. Algorithmic necropower defers the act of killing and disperses complicity....
Objects of Derision
...harassing, jailing, and killing of that community by the police, even if occasionally “excessive,” is merely a fact of “management” of the basic social anger that already is. Needless to...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 66: Bad Faith
...“August 4, 2014,” an excerpt from They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, a recently published collection of essays by Hanif Abdurraqib, a quotidian telling of an airplane journey...
Crazy in Love
...forms of meaning will be allowed to disperse freely. The term schizo-culture is not meant to refer to the actual disease, which renders people unglamorously confused and incapable of basic...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...both, of one through the other and back again: suicide has a great deal in common with literature. Though the number of famous writer-suicides is staggering, writers do not kill...
Cold Cases
...was the combination of Oak Beach’s insularity, geographic diversity, and law enforcement apathy that let these women stay missing for so long. Serial killers have said they targeted prostitutes because...
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
Found Poetry
...pains to spare them It will be hard, complicated, and costly, controversial but fabulous, To spare them isn’t trying to kill civilians poised. It’s taking A Tough Response at the...
Fear of a Muslim Planet
...front, Ferrigno mines a rich vein of unease that surfaces in both liberal-popular and left-intellectual culture. Though ultimately — the trilogy argues — left and right fears are branches of...
Dead and Going to Die
...Powell was to kill the secretary of state, and their co-conspirator, George Atzerodt, was to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. Atzerodt failed to attempt the assassination altogether. Powell followed through...
Daughters Have Their Own Agenda
...by her waiting and especially by her waiting for a cheater, a no-good, and also some light vision of universal progress, both the degrader and carrier of culture. In an...
The Thick Blue Line
...out and kill now. He was so innocent. It just isn’t fair at all.” Ron Thomas joined her in saying that the defense “lied… continuously” about the character of his...