Spicer, Racked
July 21, 2017
There’s no real need to speak of Spicer’s legacy in complicated terms. He was not good.
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Weekly Bafflements
July 21, 2017
It has been a very long week.
More Mush from the Taste Police
The first noteworthy paradox in the taste-policing racket is that it’s a singularly lucrative and prestigious one.
Laboring Academia
Universities claim graduate teaching and research aren’t worthy of the designation of “work.” It’s high time graduate employees called their bluff.
Bridging the Healthcare Divide in West Virginia
“Coal is king.” Or was. Coal is on the ropes right now.
The Online Culture Wars
Corey Pein chats about online right-wing movements with writer and academic Angela Nagle.
The Great Lakes Avengers vs. The Crumbling Cities of the Coast
The dominant superhero narrative, at least in its current form, often depends on a metropolis at risk. Whether fictional or real, present or past, a city crumbling in on itself is what’s at stake. A city that seems like one you might love someone inside of, or a city that ...
The Tarot of Alejandro Jodorowsky
July 18, 2017
What happens when one of the world’s biggest cult icons finds himself in the New York art world? Not psychomagic.
Sméagol in the Sky
July 17, 2017
“Suck-ass Delta” Coulter fumed on Twitter, calling Delta’s gate people and flight attendants “Nurse Ratchets.”
Retirement, Brought to You by Prisons, Inc.
July 17, 2017
American workers support private prisons through their retirement funds.
Weekly Bafflements
July 14, 2017
What do rich people and cockroaches have in common?
Honestly, lots of things, but in this case it’s the ability to survive a nuclear apocalypse. Over at The New Republic, John Carl Baker looks at the trend of luxury bunkers and how, even at the end of the world, the ...
Once Upon a Time in the Kingdom of Crack
After years of half-baked official narrative, TV presents the crack epidemic’s origin story—and it’s a fairy tale.