- A post-mortem on last week's Quebec election
- Who Gets to Decide if Noah is Biblical? (see also Noah as quintessentially Jewish)
- The Kill List
- "The genocide is the opposite of redemption. There is no redemption. You can't go back. Those people are dead, and it will happen again." [radio 7:54]
- Frederick Douglass in Mitzrayim
- "It had never occurred to me that being Jewish could be revolutionary."
- "This is exactly the kind of silliness that alienates young Jews."
- Where did Tom Lehrer go?
- India's likely next prime minister blamed malnutrition on dieting.
- You probably have a fraud score, frailty score, reliability score...and no way to figure out how it was calculated, or how to challenge it...or even to know what it is.
- SEC colluding with banks.
- Google on Law: If it's over 50 years old, it's invalid.
- Dead malls; why aren't they converted to housing or walking tracks?
- Allegation re Google acqui-hire: "We'll hire everyone but the woman."
- Misogyny on the internet.
- Hot money landlords, and "They don't care if we freeze."
- Felony murder rule as crime contagion.
- Salary secrecy vs. Medicare transparency.
- Favela struggles; police bases "occupy" them through 2016 Olympics.
- Cantopop stars come out, but Hong Kong's anti-gay government won't relent.
- Let's get a Universal Basic Income by being quiet on Spotify.
- UC's only response to successful labor organizing is violence and intimidation
- Rhetoric and composition: Academic capitalism and cheap teachers
- How different is the public University of Michigan from the for-profit University of Phoenix?
- More college students battle hunger as education and living costs rise
- Teaching Arabic in the US after 9/11
- The power broker of NYU
- Desk blockade
- Torturing children at school
- 4 rape revenge plots unfolding worldwide
- "[I]t is almost as if the iconic public space is itself a weapon in the hands of the dispossessed…"
- A new critical biography of Marianne Moore
- Embodying love and abuse
- "It doesn't get better, it gets different"
- (ARCHIVE, 1972) Tom Wolfe on the birth of the New Journalism
- On observing one's own descent into dementia
- Evolve or die (or flail around in the job market)
- Rumors of lesbian fades in accordance with Socialist lifestyle
- (ARCHIVE, 1992) Mary Gaitskill on Axl Rose (weird Geocities styling for extra nostalgia)
- "After all, there is 'no country' for black women anywhere"
Sarah Marshall on Laura Palmer's body - Write where you are (in the archive?)
- The Initial Points of America: Anchoring the National Grid
- Hip-Hop of the Revolution (The Sharif Don't Like It)
- “The writers that interest me all have this wide-eyed amazement at what words can do.”
- Squatters of the Lower East Side
- “In West Virginia’s abundant history of disasters, the Freedom Industries spill was unusual; there are no casualties to count, no floodwaters to fight.”
- Infinite Reality: reviving the art of Turkish miniatures
- Why Do We Love to Organize Knowledge Into Trees?
- Becoming a Post-Soviet City: Social Housing and Urban Planning in Yerevan
- “What about “sound” makes it such an attractive tool for theorizing affect?”
- Asylum and the Right to the City: Lessons from Turkey’s Syrian Guests and Other Urban Refugees
- Interview: Nadia Abu El-Haj on archaeology and the Zionist project
- Teaching Arabic in the U.S. After 9/11
- Armenian Intellectual Life in Constantinople during the Armistice Period
- Abject Matter: The Barricade and the Tunnel
- The Geology of Game of Thrones
- Darkness Over All: John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy
- Time Traveling: Whose Iraq Stories?
- Wherever you live, it is probably Egypt: Thoughts on Passover
- “In a conversational aside, I once told a student that a lot of black writing could be considered “speculative,” as only “speculative” writing could make the “jump” from thinghood to personhood.”
- The Oceanic Void
- Terrestriality
- Goldman Sachs’ sick con: How they made money off your misery
- How professors use their time: faculty time allocation
- The great graduate school experiment in Utopian socialism
- Decolonisation of the Mind
- Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why
- Why We’re in a New Gilded Age
- Obituary of a culture
- Draw Your Professor