Hillary Clinton and Pascal’s Wager
I write primarily to Jill Stein voters. I understand the festering resentments and the mistrust and downright hatred for Hillary Clinton. I understand your feelings of moral outrage and the need to...
Year: 2016
Must reads: Wildfires, military culture, GMOs, Italy earthquake, race in the US
Welcome to the start of another week, friends! It may feel dismal to be back at work yet again, but at least we've got some interesting reads for you to escape into during your lunch hour. (We would...
Imperium explores racial politics in a new America
Imperium not only sideswipes you with its opening liberal quotation, but then sits you in the back of a car with Harry Potter dressed as an FBI agent. He waits nervously for a white van to deliver a...
Toilets, basic rights, and kids in danger
Last year, Britain’s only NHS clinic dealing with gender identity conditions in under 18s reported a 100% increase in the number of children being referred to them for assessment and treatment....
The beach has always been a place to control women’s bodies
It has been hard to escape the recent controversy surrounding the prohibition of modest Muslim swimwear in areas of coastal France. The ‘burkini ban’ has been implemented in towns including...
Binding Truth: Revisiting Antidote Films vs. Laura Albert (aka JT LeRoy)
Jeff Feuerzeig’s Sundance-premiering documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story delves into the strange and winding tale of how a San Francisco musician and phone sex operator by the name of Laura...
Must reads from Libya to extradition rights
Looking for some good reads to start off the week? Here's what's been intriguing us lately... 'Interview with Libya's Prime Minister: 'We Will Not Become Like Somalia'' (Spiegel) What's happening in...
Sarah Schulman’s Conflict is not Abuse is Essential Reading For Activist Communities
In her 18th book, writer and Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY Staten Island Sarah Schulman takes on the weighty topic of interpersonal conflict, abusive behavior, the “overstatement of...
Is this election destroying us?
We’ve all seen the numbers, the horrendous “favorability” and “likability.” News commentators keep telling us that this year we have the choice between the two most loathed presidential...
Book Review: The Biopolitics of Disability by David T. Mitchell and Sharon Snyder
The term “biopolitics” was first ushered into wide use in a variety of academic fields of inquiry by French theorist Michel Foucault during his lecture series “Society Must Be Defended,”...