Big Beefing
August 01, 2022
Delusions of bovine sustainability.
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Fresh Hell
July 29, 2022
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Not that long after our vindictive patriarch in the sky created Adam on, as some have determined, October 23 at 5 a.m. EST in 4004 BCE, God must have ascertained that our sorry species would accomplish little of lasting value. In the thousands of years ...
Questions, Questions, Questions
A good conversation partner is hard to find.
Hardwickian
July 28, 2022
The Uncollected Essays shows us another Elizabeth Hardwick.
Raging for the World That Is
July 27, 2022
Muriel Rukeyser’s political activities were inextricable from her literary experimentation.
Who Profits?
July 25, 2022
How nonprofits became vehicles for programs shaped and approved by capital.
Fresh Hell
July 22, 2022
Dream a Little Dream
It’s clear to all observers that the American Dream, that grim fantasy of cookie-cutter comfort, has come in for a beating in recent decades, in no small part due to the fact that housing prices have shot up over 260 percent since 1980, while the ...
The Prosperous Migrants
Today’s digital nomads can often work from a seaside cantina.
Sexual Rights, Sexual Wrongs
July 22, 2022
On Amia Srinivasan’s “The Right to Sex.”
Prelude to a Redeployment
July 21, 2022
Listening for signs of the Americans in Kismayo, Somalia.
True Colors
July 20, 2022
Aura has become one of the internet’s favorite ways of rendering personality.
Going Beyond the Law
July 20, 2022
The movement for reproductive justice cannot afford to turn the other cheek.