Browsing Archive December, 2018
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Liberal Racism
As some of you know, the Human Resources department at Rutgers used my Facebook posts of late May and early June to convict me of violating the university’s ...
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Essay 5
Political Apology of a Lingerie Model
In the middle of this summer, I was booked to shoot for a new lingerie brand. The rate was on the low side (about 60% of industry standard ...
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Book Review 4
Fascism Doesn’t Work Like That: A Review of Jason Stanley’s How Fascism Works
It’s hard to speak ill of a book that targets fascism. And in theory it is even harder to be critical of a book that aims to explain ...
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Democrats Take Note: Spain’s Approach to the Migration Crisis
In Europe and the US the migratory surge of the last decade has provoked profound institutional and political crises. It has overwhelmed existing systems for processing undocumented immigrants ...
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Fiction 1
The President’s Ghost
The blue light glowed eerily on the walls of the West Sitting Room. If a journalist saw him now, somebody with a telescope in the Eisenhower Building, there’d ...
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My Struggle: Confessions of a Tall, Aryan White Man – Volume 7
I dreamt I was in a small cabin on an island and I was writing page after page. The words poured out of me as if they had ...
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Whose Struggle? Karl Ove Knausgaard is No Longer a Writer
Sometime in May, 2012, I was standing by a mass grave in a forest near Łopuchowo, Poland. I was seventeen and, along with many of my classmates, I ...
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What is ‘trauma’ in Arabic?
“The issue isn’t just the crime of the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, because a bigger crime followed—the crime of the imposition of silence on an ...
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What is an Americanata?
Americanata is an Italian noun. In the singular, it is pronounced American-ah-tah. The plural is Americanate, American-ah-tay. It is not known when, exactly, the word Americanata came into ...
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Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects: Re-Writing The Woman in White
Fans of HBO’s Sharp Objects or the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name will remember the story’s “woman in white”—a ghostly figure that has reportedly been seen ...
