Politics of Contempt
...I want to focus on the positive, because otherwise I would collapse. For her children, there are no baby steps. They get the same quality of teaching, the same educational...
Killing the Angel in the House
...Time ever slow. Slower than molasses, slower than raw honey: turbinated sugar-time. Devoid of speed, life moved at the pace of number of books devoured, Japanese cartoon series and American...
Sunday Reading
...Moral Economy of Tech Ada Kaleh: The Story of an Island Kerim Friedman: I, the Holocaust, Am Your God President of the Philippines urging the public to kill drug addicts...
A Guy Named Frank
...there’s a clear potential for monopolization. The enterprising, shirtless, teenaged stoner dealer only a text away could disappear entirely. And what then will happen to the culture of weed smoking,...
Kids in the Haul
...lady? I’m the Marcia-fucking-Brady of the Upper East Side, and sometimes I want to kill myself.” II. About that Starter Mansion Life: Halfway through the 2012 documentary, The Queen of...
Death and the Maiden
...To move beyond the death drive would not restore an earlier state of things but kill the present one, including its division of life into two distinct genders. “Splintered fragments...
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...“Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to gain Cathy, but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. He would...
Fan Fiction
...engage culture from within. Our authors use fiction to explode boundaries. The criticism is coming from inside the house. In 1969, three female students at Freie Universität in Berlin disturbed...
Introduction
...fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich Mass popular protest followed, met with violent reprisal by Kibaki's state apparatus. Police were given shoot-to-kill orders, and hundreds...
The New Inquiry Vol. 55: Testing
...absent from teachers who imposed punishments driving her to contemplate suicide “more days than not.” Cheating’s “tiny filament of comradeship” was a lifeline. Her experience is far from abnormal: one...
Policing the Troubles
...buy sweets, a hooded Ogilby was beaten to death by teenage girls with bricks in a “romper room”—a disused space where those “convicted” were sent to be tortured and killed....
Special Victims
...of the defilement, rehabilitation, and revenge that high-grossing movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, and Gone have since employed. Recent films like Miss Bala and Martha...
Vol. 23 Editors' Note: Shelter
...Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. In Scotland, Cal Flyn sees a revived literary culture intertwined with the pursuit of political independence, with one leading novelist gaining fame when he...
You and Mark Aren't Friends
...become an international center of outrage once it becomes clear that the company’s innovations, as is so often the case, are destined to kill your privacy. Now Facebook has made...
That sisterhood. In that one life. Destroy one another.
...they were "ready for trial." except for procedural reasons the case was dismissed, and now the traffickers were plotting to kill him. so when an airplane crashed near buffalo, the...
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...sample-size portions of the whole menu, this Elite Yelper went in for the kill: “Think of all the great reviews you’ll get.” *** If Yelp is not opposed to its...