Browsing Archive April, 2016
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Editorial Note 0
Introduction to Issue #4
See, we made it back. We’re getting the hang of this magazine thing, due in no small part to the rigorous standards of Matthew Friedman, our managing editor, ...
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Balancing Acts
A photo essay by James Clifford It is enough that it have weight. –Francis Ponge This picture was taken by Don Rothman, a friend who shared my interest ...
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On “Freedom of Expression” and the Question of “Blasphemy”
By ETIENNE BALIBAR [Note: This handout accompanied a presentation by Etienne Balibar in the Columbia University Seminar on Literary Theory, December 3, 2015. The respondent was Souleymane Bashir Diagne ...
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Power Talking: A Commentary on Balibar
By BRUCE ROBBINS When I lived in Switzerland in the late 70s and played (badly) for a local basketball team, one or two of my teammates tried out some ...
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A Tale of Two Systems: On Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight
By LISA FLUET Tom McCarthy’s film Spotlight (2015) recounts the Boston Globe’s early-2000s investigative reportage on the Boston archdiocesan hierarchy’s long history of routinized cover-ups of clerical sexual abuse of minors. The film ...
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Divide and Rule: On Watching Denmark’s Borgen
By LAUREN M. E. GOODLAD Toward the end of the first season of Borgen (2010-13), Bent Sejrø, the aging mentor to Birgitte Nyborg, who is Denmark’s prime minister, advises her ...
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Stolen Oscars
By OLIVIA RUTIGLIANO On a hot day in the summer of 2013, I sat in my Los Angeles hotel room, waiting for a phone call from my contact, a ...
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How To Think About Socialism: A Primer
By JAMES LIVINGSTON 1) Socialism is not the exclusive property of “the” working class, whatever the fuck that means these days, or meant a hundred years ago. In ...
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Spain: a Crisis of Social Democracy
By JOHN McCLURE In June of 2013, David Unger wrote a prescient editorial piece in the New York Times about the collapse of European social democracy. In the ...
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A New Internationalism
By VAN GOSSE and BILL FLETCHER, Jr., with PHYLLIS BENNIS For well over a century, a shared commitment to internationalism has defined what it means to be Left. Even when ...
