I’ve been a fan of Pallavi Aiyar’s writing since 2008. Back then, she was based in Beijing, reporting for the …
November 2016
Coastal Elite Elegy
By Joe Donnelly Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. -Alfred North Whitehead Of the many …
Politics and the Stage: The Unflinching Spirit of Democracy Is Alive from Athens to Broadway
By Henry Godinez Since the inception of Democracy in ancient Greece, theater has existed to keep it honest.
Below the Fold: Trump and California
The Sunday, November 20th edition of the Los Angeles Times contains a puzzle of Pynchonian complexity. And like the postmodern …
Trump and the Fascism of Common Sense
By Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee We do not have to reach the excesses of Nineteen Eighty-four to recognize ourselves as beings …
Travel Is Living: How Airbnb Ingeniously Markets to Korea
By Colin Marshall Stuff Koreans Like, a short-lived imitator of the mid-2000s satirical blog Stuff White People Like, only took …
On the Need for Queer Podcasts
By Hannah Harris Green At its worst, public radio seems like a coterie of entirely heterosexual white reporters who assume …
Still Life: on Madeleine Bourdouxhe’s La Femme De Gilles
I had a difficult time, while reading Madeleine Bourdouxhe’s La Femme de Gilles, separating it from the recent events in …
President-Elect Trump, the Federal Judiciary, and Thanksgiving
By Carl Tobias Last Friday, Donald Trump, thousands of Trump University students, and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced …
Accidental Poetry from Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview
By Gustavo Turner Yesterday, on November 22, the New York Times interviewed the President-Elect Donald Trump. You can read the full transcript …