The Largest Intercultural Exchange
A summer spent abroad at an Indian call center sheds light upon the many people who work in business process outsourcing, a competitive field that promises only the equivalent of…
Politics
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On Marriage Equality
“If marriage equality launches a widespread flight to the culturally sanctioned form of partnership, have we lost a history and a field of experience that the rest of the world…
First Amendment Porn
Kyle Richards, the Midwestern 21 year-old whose bank-robbing tendencies landed him in prison, now finds himself in the middle of a whole different controversy. Richards was denied his right to…
Anti-Multiculturalism in Europe?
Western European politics have been taking the anti-multiculturalism route, policies that change the scope of immigration, religious tolerance and cultural diversity. The Boston Review discusses what multiculturalism means is Europe…
An Internet Revolutionary
Julian Assange may have more sidekicks than we know of. You can read about how Bradley Manning, a gender-questioning soldier, came to subvert the American military’s authority over information regarding…
Rumpus on Feministing!
Feministing published an article on the backlash to the Mac McClelland piece on PTSD, commending her bravery, defending the art of the personal essay and citing yesterday’s Roxane Gay piece…
The Revolution Is Incomplete
It is tempting to read the photos of last week’s renewed conflict in Tahrir Square as yet another isolated round of violence between the Egyptian youth and the Central Security…
Still with the Scarlet Letters
Last week journalist Mac McClelland wrote a brutal, exceptional essay for Good where she plainly discussed her experience with PTSD and her desire for violent sex as one means of coping…
Wilson/Huggins: Kissing America’s Heart
Last month I announced my candidacy for Office of the President of the United States of America.
Not Working
I stumbled across this project via A Public Space today called Not Working, a project intended to capture America during The Great Recession in the same way Studs Terkel did…
Accidental Political Poets
Poetry is the literary art form that can most readily adapt the grammatically-fraught, political commentaries of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, apparently. Michael Solomon compiled and edited a bunch of…
Chinese Political Prisoners and “Confessing”
“Chinese confessions are as much a ritual as the kowtow, the ‘three kneelings and the nine prostrations,’ of dynastic times. Foreign journalists are occasionally compelled to make such confessions, although…