The Best Movies of 2011
10. Rise of The Planet of The Apes (Rupert Wyatt) Rise of The Planet of The Apes is like a cocky young University student: brash, intelligent but not as clever as it thinks it is. Still Wyatt’s...
Occupy Nigeria: The Beginning of A Sub Saharan Awakening
On January 1st, Nigerian President Goodluck Johnathan removed an essential fuel subsidy in the country, making not only the price of fuel, but also the price of any and all consumer goods transported...
Midseason Horror: A Turn Towards Collectivity on TV?
At the start of the 2011-2012 television season, the networks were catering to a demand for fairytales. Four months later, they’re rolling out two shows with a strong horror lean, bent on creeping...
Reading race out of context: “Reverse racism” and the Diane Abbott Twitter controversy
How unappealing it is to imagine British Member of Parliament Dianne Abbott being given a “severe dressing down” and “ordered” to apologize “unreservedly” by Labour Party leader Ed...
Islamophobia in China: Violence Breaks Out in Xinjiang
Western China is far from the happiest place in which to be Muslim right now. At the end of December, police killed seven people in Xinjiang, an area traditionally dominated by the Uighur Muslim...
Flying While Anarchist: The Black Bloc Whipping Boy For the Security State
There was once a bargain offered to the more privileged inhabitants of the world’s more privileged nation states. It went something like this: We will treat people with brown skin and funny clothes...
Palling around with Nazis: How Republican rhetoric obscures Ron Paul’s white supremacist base and undermines democracy
Throughout the Obama presidency, members of the GOP have been quick to compare the President to Hitler. Many of the party’s current presidential hopefuls have engaged in this kind of inflammatory...
Review: Downton Abbey, Season Two
The second season of Downton Abbey returns to US airwaves this weekend, just in time for the seven households that haven’t torrented it yet. The British import has turned out to be an unexpected...
Review: Doctor Who Christmas special
Doctor Who fans around the world were far more interested in the landfall of this year’s Christmas special, ‘The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe,’ than they were in the progress of NORAD...
Slumming: Consuming misery on reality TV
I have been in rickety condemned buildings that it was absolutely dangerous to go through! Found six families living in one miserably ventilated cellar—24 persons, 16 of them adults, living in the...