Uneven Developments
Late Imperial Holocausts
July 8, 2010
In his disturbing but brilliant book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis documents the famine that spread through India during the […]
Read PostLetter from London
July 2, 2010
The hammer has not yet dropped. London is enjoying an Indian summer before the onset of cold, hard times. During […]
Read PostThe Return of Limits: What the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Really Means
June 8, 2010
What’s the real meaning of the Deepwater Horizon disaster? I keep returning to this topic because it reveals so much […]
Read PostThe Banality of Evil: The Photography of David Goldblatt
June 5, 2010
I just went to see a fantastic career retrospective exhibition of the South African photographer David Goldblatt at the Jewish […]
Read PostOpen Letter to President Obama
May 31, 2010
Dear President Obama, This holiday weekend brought news of the failure of BP’s latest strategy for plugging the oil flow […]
Read PostThe Oil Curse
May 25, 2010
We Americans are very attached to our oil. It’s the ultimate lubricant, greasing our dreams of limitless horizontal velocity in […]
Read PostThe difference a month makes
May 24, 2010
It’s been one month since BP’s Deepwater Horizon sank. The levels of human incompetence and political corruption that have been […]
Read PostApartheid in Arizona
May 17, 2010
The legislature in Arizona recently passed House Bill 2281. This document bans ethnic studies courses which promote race consciousness from […]
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