Slavoj Žižek, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (New York: Verso, 2012). by Adam Kotsko First, the good the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek has finally written...
By Mariya Strauss Meet Norma Flores Lopez, director of the Children in the Fields campaign of the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, or AFOP, whose job it is to advocate for children...
In the wake of a horrific series of mass shootings in the United States in 2012, a robust debate has begun about the public policy changes clearly needed to prevent such tragedies; though the debate...
The GOP is proposing a great idea nowadays: Let’s give teachers and school administrators classroom guns! In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown Connecticut last week,...
Professional concern troll and New York Times mansplainer Nicholas Kristof touched off a firestorm last Friday when he warned of a new way in which teh poors are profiting on the backs of Big...
The time of year has come for the general population to be reminded that homeless people, disabled children, and other people who have ‘fallen on hard times’ exist. Bell-ringers torment shoppers...
Last weekend, 125 garment workers died in Bangladesh in a horrific factory fire that tore through the Tazreen Fashion factory. Accounts of the conditions at the factory, and in the fire, should...
by Mariya Strauss I’ve known Amber Smock since we were both in grad school; since then she has trained her writing and political organizing lasers on a single target: making the world a more...
by Anna Lekas Miller Minutes before the ceasefire, Israeli F-16s were still dropping bombs on Gaza. Still, at 9 PM exactly—the time that Egypt, Hamas and Israel agreed that the ceasefire...
By Anna Hamilton One common complaint leveled at modern intersectional feminism—particularly academic feminism and Women’s Studies—is that feminism that doesn’t exclusively focus on issues of...
