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Author: Laurie Penny

Columns

Zero Gravity
April 11, 2017
Water, whiskey, and bodily fluids of various hues glide in perfect jewel-like constellations through the thinning air.

Holding Tech Accountable
April 11, 2017
"We want IBM to respect our right to refuse any participation in any illegal Trump project that violates the civil liberties of immigrants, Muslims, women, or the LGBT community."

The Baleful and the Brightest
April 10, 2017
If you want to know what the good Lord thinks of your earthly strivings, you’ll find it in this note to Isaiah 39, in the Geneva Bible: “How greatly God detesteth ambition and vaine glory.” Pretty straightforward. What was a vice for Romans became a sin for Christians. ...

In Defense of Sanctuary
April 06, 2017
To move away from sanctuary by dismissing it as “merely symbolic” is either “merely ignorant” or “merely cowardly.”

The Art of War
April 06, 2017
So many American writers and artists are critical of Trump but not of the American state, or even of America itself.

What Gorsuch Means
April 05, 2017
If the public demands that the Supreme Court serves democracy instead of concentrated financial power, it will do so.