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The Catalan Crisis and Podemos
As I file these comments on Wednesday, November 15th, the Catalan crisis is unfolding toward its next critical moment, the December 21st election of a new regional Parliament. ...
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Letter from Barcelona: To Vote or Not to Vote —That was the Referendum Question
On October 1st, at precisely 11:26 in the morning, I voted “illegally” for the first time in my life. The event in question was a unilateral referendum in ...
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The Calvert Street Boys
The second day after I landed in Baltimore, two Teach For America teachers from my new school took me for a drive past the school where I would ...
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Contested West: Identity and Citizenship in a Global Age
I always ask my students, on the first day of our Western Civilization course, “what is the West?” Here’s what they tend to tell me: that the West ...
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Coal, Guns, Freedom: Teaching Environmental Ethics to Aspiring Petroleum Engineers
Climate change is real. While the President may or may not still believe that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China, 97% of climate scientists agree that ...
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Tate’s Queer Britain
When it comes to celebrating Pride, there’s no place like London. Even for this New York City resident, Pride in London approached unmatched sublimity through its simultaneously extensive ...
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Borders and Bolsheviks
Europe has long been a land of struggle and honey in the mind of the much-battered American left, and today Britain takes on that role. The Democratic Socialists ...
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The Shrine of Tears: A Peace Corps Memory
By JOHN McCLURE “[The Kenya National Theater] is also known as the ‘Shrine of Tears’. It was so nicknamed for the mixed bag of fortunes that come to ...
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Who Decides?
By FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER Last June 11, the government of Puerto Rico held what turned out to be not only the island’s fifth political status consultation but also its most ill-fated ...
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Fuck These Postmodern Writers: Meena Kandaswamy’s Depiction of Atrocity
By ASHIK KUMAR In Tanjavur — the “Rice Bowl” of Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state — the many castes of Hindus are split into three groups: Brahmin, non-Brahmin, ...
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