Swimming Class
...bounds of public decency. This raucous swimming culture was tolerated in natural waters, but city officials wanted none of it in the new artificial waters. They made rules against all...
We Call It a Dismantling Process
Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike
Zombie Novel
...state. Comeuppance for a flatlined culture.” Despite the lieutenant’s protestations, this righteous punishing nature is exactly God, he is Deuteronomy’s Jehovah, dealing out suffering and destruction for perceived infidelity. But...
Urban Planting
...Bartle Frere, the governor of Bombay in the mid 1800s. Frere managed his city under the premise that “even Indians could be properly civilized through exposure to Western culture and...
Precarious Verse
...but also eminently leverageable. They have become vertically integrated properties precision-crafted to capture huge amounts of babysitting money. The culture industry has twisted open the taps, and out has poured...
Collector's Item
...Material Culture of Music," argues that this built-up sediment of unwanted culture demystifies collectibles in general: In the ways in which they accumulate, and in the fact that they sit...
Why We Love Sociopaths
...evening news. On a certain level, this trend may not seem like anything new. It seems as though most cultures have lionized ruthless individuals who make their own rules, even...
Nostalgia for the Future
...he packed my bag of DVDs, that I do not pay for it. Early Palestinian cinema and its consequent visual culture sought to give, to the world, an image of...
Collateral Damage
...means to be a writer in the precarious economy and how it has changed the nature of written culture and book reviewing. *** Willie Osterweil: One thing I’d like to...
Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
Nerd Crushed: Where Are the Average-Looking Female "Sex Symbols"?
...with nerd culture in the sense that they go to Comic Con. Then there are the women who have been christened as “the thinking man’s sex symbol,” like Tina Fey,...
The Ahmeds in America, Part One
...Islam as religion - not culture, not politics, not music, not poetry - just Islam. And that too, a particular kind of religion - one that obsesses over the veil,...
The Ahmeds in America, Part I
...in terms of Islam as religion - not culture, not politics, not music, not poetry - just Islam. And that too, a particular kind of religion - one that obsesses...
Dry Bones Breathe
...all the glories and contradictions of black culture, religions and politics. There’s a record of the black struggle over the course of the 20th century, a tension between the South...
Woody Allen’s Good Name
...start by assuming she’s lying,” except in a rape culture, and if you are presuming his innocence by presuming her mendacity, you are rape cultured. It works both ways, or...
Cartooning the Body
...a child’s supposedly passive consumption of whatever content is aimed at them, cartoons trace a political horizon defined by the profound absence of alternative possibilities. Within the globalized consumer culture,...