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Browsing Archive December, 2018

  • Essay 0

    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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By James Livingston
  • 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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Sophia Richards
  • 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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Peter Ludlow
  • Essay 1

    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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By John McClure
  • 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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Mary Lawlor
  • Essay 0

    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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Jack Halberstam
  • Essay 0

    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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Ben Libman
  • Essay 0

    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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Nora Parr
  • Essay 0

    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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Mastura Alatas
  • Essay 0

    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 ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By Emily Foster

Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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