Meet the Imperial Feminist
Gertrude Bell was unable to see all women as deserving equal rights
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How Empires Fall
August 19, 2021
On the Berlin Wall, the “August Coup,” and the decline of Great Powers
A Small Eternity
Alone, soaring, my balcony a cloud
in the sky’s gentle hold,
I look out on a beach, a paradise
where the green (whispering, roaring)
has said all it has to say.
A green that almost glows with pistachio-colored edges.
A green that suckles, crawls,
grows into bright apricot
and ...
Can You Hear Me Now?
August 16, 2021
A new history of teletherapy highlights the flexibility of the therapeutic frame.
Fresh Hell
August 13, 2021
Extinction Express
This week marked the release of another funereal report about our rapidly accelerating climate crisis from the UN-convened scientific body of the IPCC: having failed to curb emissions enough to prevent the planet from warming to the threshold of 1.5 degrees ...
Mocking the Klan
August 11, 2021
Did cartoonist Billy Ireland really drive out the Columbus, Ohio KKK?
Innocent Despair
When separate from you my blood will ache.An unknown part of me will acheand I’ll try to kill it. Or grab it.The cell that misses you will throb in me,and I won’t be able to spot it,it changes position often,drags out the game,hurts my senses.My eyesight will worsen,my ...
Anthro-washing
August 09, 2021
On the rise, and limits, of corporate anthropology.
Fresh Hell
August 06, 2021
A Plague on Your Houses
Last Saturday, the nation’s eviction ban was allowed to expire, putting some 3.6 million people living in the richest nation in the history of the world at imminent risk of becoming homeless all because—according to the Biden administration’s ...
Ordinary Violence
Where is the international feminist alliance against domestic violence?
Speeding Away from Zion
August 05, 2021
What is the American Jew?
His Own Prophet
August 04, 2021
Adonis’s Misguided Polemic Against Islam.