- Best business journalism of 2013: New Yorker view, Businessweek view.
- "I just wanted to live in a world full of candy."
- Well-paid academics.
- Split California into Panem and 5 colonies.
- Art critic as subcontractor.
- Verklempt over temps.
- Boss on the shelf; work or be hungry.
- Midas's bitcoins; there is no apolitical money.
- Bits bull: weaponized robotic hound of hell.
- Kierkegaard's frenemies.
- Lucky duckie, you're the one; exposing systemic corruption.
- Helping drug dealers? Better be a bank.
- Will pilots soon be obsolete?
- Targeted ads coming to a hospital room near you.
- The big question: financialization or politics?
- Too big to prosecute.
- Papal bull.
- Topless protests raise the question: Who can speak for Muslim women?
- Wall to Wall
- 1915 Singapore Mutiny
- The Life of a Fast-Food Striker
- Long-Term Unemployment Is a National Catastrophe
- Mapuche Leader Found Dead in Reservoir She Opposed
- World Systems Theory
- 1950s Sitcom by David Lynch and Mark Frost
- Meth: Adderall for construction workers
- Is Bitcoin money? Absolutely and so are chocolate Hannukah coins, casino chips, Monopoly money…
- TIME Magazine in 1941: “How to Tell Japs from the Chinese”
- Lubunca: Queer Turkish slang in ?stanbul
- Jinnealogy: Everyday Life and Islamic Theology in Post-Partition Delhi
- “That Syria is gone, replaced by a country of shards.”
- Substantive Erasures: Essays on Academic Boycott and the American Studies Association
- Where will we live? The Housing Crisis in Britain
- Why Run a Slum If You Can Make More Money Housing the Homeless?
- In Conversation with Mahmood Mamdani
- The Filth in Erdo?an’s Closet
- “Yet Istanbul is quietly emerging as a hub for media outcasts from across the region.”
- This Is Not a Protest: Ironic Dissent in Post-Coup Egypt
- Radio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio
- Teju Cole’s Mushtaq Mix
- “The collection of Japanese war trophies—which included various body parts, including skulls—was, by all accounts, endemic and uncontrollable.”
- Iceland’s Hidden Elves Delay Road Projects
- Remembering Larry Goodwyn (1923-2013)
- Toward an anticapitalist understanding of the Snowden revelations
- What we can learn from Japan's equality of respect?
- Why are war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine anyway?
- What type of disaster was Hurricane Sandy? [pdf]
- Crafting Jewish identity by acting Jewishly, not by looking for "Jewish identity"
- Why is an accrediting commission trying to close California's largest public college?
- Wall St loves frats
- How the MLA "job market" really works
- Academics who defend Wall St reap reward
- Why was the media so obsessed with higher ed this year?
- There is no academic "profession"
- Essays on academic boycott and the American Studies Association
- Six questions for Teach for America
- Subtract teachers, add pupils
- A slow death for Chicago schools
- Are the anti-tech protesters winning?
- "I’d love to eat fruit…Fruit is my favorite. Peaches. Nectarines. Cantaloupe. Bananas. I like Fuji apples. Can’t afford to eat it."
- "[T]here is no Geneva convention in the modern conflict between riot cops and protesters"
- On Western classical music in Palestine
- The division of North Indian music into Hindu and Muslim categories
- The Sari-Clad Jazz Diva
- How Mughal miniaturist Abul Hasan copied a work by Albrecht Dürer
- Max Factor and the history of cinematic makeup
- Misconceptions about early 20th-century Central Asian history
- Does Arabic have the most words?
- Arabs through Turkish eyes
- Istanbul through Armenian eyes
- Urban development in Saudi Arabia, and the "Paris of Najd"
- Muscat and Gwadar: connections during the 19th century
- On Iran and India's shared Persianate culture
- Churches in Iran
- Churches in Mumbai
- Churches in Kolkata
- Synagogues in Kolkata
- Synagogues in Kerala
- South Asian communities in Kenya and South Africa
- Indians of African descent
- An Ethiopian-Italian love story, and Fascist-era race laws
- The Oriental Research Institute and Manuscript Library at the University of Kerala
- How manuscripts are digitised at the British Library
- A year in hiding in wartime Florence