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Unexpected Consequences
April 17, 2018
Once it became clear that his congressional interrogation would have all the intensity of a flogging with wet lettuce, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg cleverly shifted the tenor of his remarks. He patiently tutored D.C.’s elected internet virgins in the role he was expecting ...

Syriana
April 16, 2018
“‘Explosion without an objective,’ declared Miles Blundell, ‘is politics in its purest form.’”—Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day   U.S. Imperialism should be a thing again, but some theoretical adjustment is suggested. Scholarly analyses have tied it to narrow ...

Festung High School
March 27, 2018
Trump's “hardening” of schools in the wake of recent shootings is a reversion to the bunker mentality of the nuclear age.

No Mothers, No Daughters
March 27, 2018
Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...

Fresh Hell
March 23, 2018
It seems our collective penchant for plastic straws may actually spell our doom.