The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part III)
...acceptable? Some Biden officials tried to guess .” From the piece: Biden officials in recent months privately discussed how many daily Covid-19 deaths it would take to declare the virus...
‘At Last, We Are Alive’
...that the State tried to smash with the hooves of São Paulo police, is that, at last, we are alive.” Brum slammed this against dismissals of the mass grievances as...
TNI Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel March 27
...up to Occupy Wall Street's declared May 1 general strike, we've assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring: Greil Marcus Legendary rock critic and...
Dark Pages
...depraved monster; or 3) the diaries are authentic, but Casement’s public deeds outweigh his private indiscretions. (This last position was taken, among others, by Peter Singleton-Gates, who tried to publish...
The "Man's Woman," the "Woman's Woman," and Other Apocryphal Creatures
...but mostly because she’d already tried on the vixen persona in her earlier years and found it wanting (Poison Ivy, anyone?). So, sure, she’s a woman’s woman. I recalled this...
The Other Foot
...Liza of Style Blueprint told me, “To be authentic in what you’re writing about, it means that you fully support it. You have tried that face cream. And you didn’t...
Desecration Hardware, 3 (The Trestle Salvaged Table in Salvaged Black Finish)
...probably false fireplace, where F. was standing. Cuba, she said. What? The photo, the one T. tried to escape through. It’s Cuba, I recognize it. I don’t know how, but...
Marginal Returns
...Martin and Bill Duke are on the underemployment line. The studio tried to muscle both movies into the conversation late in the year, but neither quite got there in the...
Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live: Gabriel García Márquez's Memory
...of Colombian folk culture. Second, there is the “Faulknerian revolution” story that people like Pascale Casanova put forward, where William Faulkner modeled a particular way of being a writer in...
For the Win: Failure!
...in: when corporate interests come into conflict with a democratically elected president, corporations will win, every time. After all, when Jimmy Carter tried to create a sensible energy policy, oil...
Where the Fire's Still Burning
...police force or the military was held responsible for not interfering. Thirty-three people were tried and convicted of 'attempting to destroy constitutional order' and given death penalties, which were converted...
Dumb Computers, Smart Cops
...and, after ordering it to disperse, tried to force the issue by beating the crowd with what are euphemistically called batons but in practice tend to break ribs and bruise...
Moral belief as aesthetic stance
...would say yes; Camille Paglia would laugh derisively, then say no. Willis' phrase "the values of civilization" is frustratingly vague--is this civilization in the sense of culture (the arts), or...
We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class
...be translated as “deepening”: deepening one’s social isolation by means of the further demands produced by another child. But we should add that the more capital tried to increase the...
Dark Pools
...tried. The map was published by the Federal Reserve following the 2008 crash, and though the image was made publicly available, it is intended for experts. Some mainstream-media outlets paid...
Queer, Interrupted
...New York City, and a now-ritualized street-party-turned-riot in Seattle called Queers Fucking Queers. But more than specific actions and attacks, Bash Back! developed a culture of queerness that refused constraint...