Life at school can be tough. Add being LGBTQ into the mix, and there is the recipe for trauma, bullying and exclusion. I didn't experience homophobic bullying at school because I was so far in the...
It might have escaped your notice, but apparently a Mediterranean climate and robust olive oil are not the only things Australia has in common with Greece. This week, prominent Australian banker...
Hollywood’s latest ode to the “empowering” nature of privatizing the public is called “Won’t Back Down.” The drama, which stars a host of fabulous actors known for portraying strong women...
Mega City One is widescreen for 800 million people. Its streets are legion. 12 serious crimes every minute. 17,000 crimes a day. The law can only respond to 6% of them. Rotting unnoticed in a back...
We saw them dotting the streets as we drove into town; here and there, the red squares pinned to shirts, bags, occasionally hats, pots and pans in hand. Little handfuls of them, walking together. We...
‘Britain officially a dystopia.’ The headline may come from The Daily Mash - a sort of meaner spirited and fouler mouthed, which is to say British, version of The Onion. But “the country's...
Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times, updated paperback ed. (New York and London: Verso, 2011). The philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek has put reviewers of his latest book, Living in...
Dan Harmon's hit Community is wrapping up its second season tonight with the other half of the finale, a Western send-up that has given our characters a fabulous excuse for skulking around campus...
Alex von Tunzelmann, Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean , Henry Holt and Co, 2011. Americans remain fascinated by the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the fall of 1962, American...
The Verso Book of Dissent, Ed. Andrew Hsiao and Andrea Lim, Verso, 2010. The Idea of Communism, Ed. Coustas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek, Verso, 2010. Stephen Colbert once famously said that...
