At the Intersection of Personal and Political: Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now edited by Amit Majmudar
American writers have a long, distinguished history of calling out injustice.
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The Digital Dictator
I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night –Roman emperor Gaius Caligula (AD 12–AD 41). Part of…
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tiny Bubbles
A bubble is a sphere of privilege, but it also provides the safety to mix up more soapy water and to blow new bubbles to protect what we hold dear.
Weekly Geekery
The long dark history of socialist utopias. Get all the gadgets! Netflix binges are ruining the environment. Internet hate speech law.
Weekly Geekery
Mars: The ultimate back up planet. Goodbye, ladyblogging. How does social media walk the line between enabling hate speech and not giving it a megaphone. The Kindle cannot kill the…
Whose Word?
In the midst of debate surrounding the Washington Redskins’s trademark cancellation, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg reminds us that a word is never completely free of its etymology. Rooted in a tradition…