Donald Boström recounts his interactions with Julian Assange in the early 2010s and gives his thoughts on the WikiLeaks founder's legal controversies.
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The Weekly Read: April 22, 2019
Steve Lichtman reviews the week in politics and culture.
Coming for Us: Primo Levi and the Border Patrol
Novelist and Professor Fenton Johnson responds to an intrusion by the US Border Patrol into the University of Arizona campus.
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture, Schematics
Joseph Giovannini provides schematics used in his analysis of the Zumthor-LACMA reconstruction proposal.
The Untranslatable Journey of Argentina’s Fourth Feminist Wave
Tamara Tenenbaum traces the fourth feminist wave in Argentina, from #NiUnaMenos to #MiraComoNosPonemos.
Thinking with School Shooters
Morley Musick analyzes the writing of school shooters and proposes alternative preventative measures for these crimes that begin with changes in education.
A Quiver of Quislings
Benedict Cosgrove proposes a new collective noun, "a quiver of quislings."
What Does it Mean for Los Angeles When the Frieze Art Fair Comes to Town?
Melissa Karlin examines the staying power of contemporary art fairs in Los Angeles.
Michael Cohen and Me: It’s Complicated
"What is the takeaway of the congressional testimony, as well as Michael Cohen’s more global sleaziness, for the diehards of Trumplandia?"
UTLA Strike Exposes the Heart of California’s Inequality Problem
John W. W. Zeiser and Mansoor Khan discuss the history of Prop 13, and its implications on the current UTLA strike.