No Dignity, No Doubt
...suspected they possessed insufficient patriotic grief. Dignity is not just a laurel for when totalitarians die but also for when we kill them. When President Barack Obama announced the death...
Shelter
...sees a revived literary culture intertwined with the pursuit of political independence, with one leading novelist gaining fame when he described English people working in Scotland as either “settlers” or...
Cinema Guantánamo
...Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (‘bounty hunters track and kill witches all over the world’), Side Effects (‘a psychiatric-meds melodrama about an NYC woman whose husband’s in prison’), and Warm...
On Rage and Swagger
...There are things that make us enraged, above all ways of death: when police kill unarmed teenagers, when states murder behind the veil of law, when bands of racists go...
A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye
A dispatch from Dahye, published in collaboration with the New York War Crimes.
Troubled Mime
...own behalf. His motives he did not reveal, even after he won acquittal. As to why such a talented man should kill a child, Deburau's biographer Tristan Rémy conjectured that...
Transcript on a Face
...hollow in contrast to a bulky, angry, unpredictable it-figure. It's at this point that Wilson says he cocked and shot his gun with the bullet that would kill an unarmed...
Protected: Kony 2012 Forever
Lessons from the first viral campaign for military intervention
Bodies of Water
...its complicity in the dictatorship and the disappearances, including campaigns of misinformation in presenting assassinations as suicides or apolitical crimes. In 1976, the body of Marta Ugarte, a teacher and...
1983 - 1962
...from the back of slave-drawn carts, “letting everything else drop” meant that the crew had to kill an escaped stunt tiger to keep it from eating them, because cost-cutting kept...
Fist to Brain
...and social conventions, and for Levinas it is therefore the basis for all ethics. He believes that the face, in its obvious vulnerability, says: you shall not kill. Boxing violates...
Vol. 26 Editors' Note: Consent
...realize you, the player, have to finish the job. To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it,...
"Dangerous" Indeed: Simon & Schuster Imprint Publishing Book by White Supremacist
...ground in our country by the minute. White supremacy kills people, and it will kill more people in the coming years. This isn't about me just not liking what Yiannopoulos...
This is 40?
...to say about the appropriation of black culture by white youth before pulling back and solving its narrative riddle with gangland fantasia. He gives us a quartet of non-black Kentucky...
Diner Forty Niner
...their mark. Recipe for raccoon from Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings (1853): "First catch your coon and kill him, skin him, and take out the entrails; cut...
Preservation Society
...as pieces of nature, the bears are thoroughly beyond culture. Animal or object? Animal and object? This is the irresolvable tension that defines all taxidermy. What, then, do the ten...