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• Reading List: March

  Non-Fiction: Mark Greif, Kathleen Ross (Eds.): What was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation.Victor Cha: The Impossible State. North Korea, Past and... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Asymmetric Polarisation

  While concerns about political and media polarization online are longstanding, our study suggests that polarization was asymmetric. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Hard Exit.

  Much of the discussions so far have centered on whether it’ll be a “soft” Brexit or a “hard” Brexit. A “soft” Brexit would allow the U.K.’s relationship with th... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Cost of an Absolutist Facade

  The upshots of adopting such an absolutist facade can be strung together into a fateful parable of sunk costs. Seven years later, it is still impossible for... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• "...none of This is Remotely Compatible with the Modern Conservative Movement."

  To Trump—and to his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who appeared on a Thursday panel alongside chief of staff Reince Priebus—this means pursuing an agenda of... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - You're Just Bones and Insecurity.

  

  david schermann: bigger than us. [via tumblr]bonobo | kerala. the xx | dangerous. austra | we were alive. sampha | blood on me. camp cope | flesh and... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse

  

  In Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents, Olamina, the heroine of the story, dreams of a future where humanity focuses its talents, its aspirations, its... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Muddling of Fact and Fiction

  is a tried-and-true tactic of totalitarian regimes. What’s more, when the two are confused for long enough, or when an indefatigable war on truth has been... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 9/2/17

  Politics: What does it mean for American politics that cities often oppose the policies supported by both the federal government and the states they are... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Octavia Butler - The Parable of the Talents

  

  Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.To be led by a fool is to be led by the... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• 75 Books to Read

  "So now we have another group that uses crosses and slaughters people. Jarret's people could be behind it. Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier,... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: January.

  Non-Fiction: James Gleick: Time Travel.Olivia Laing: Lonely City.Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle. Jean Baudrillard: Simulcra and Simulation.Breanne Fah... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence

  The confusion began shortly after Trump issued his sweeping executive order on Friday night. Under its provisions, Trump suspended the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• After a Week

  I don't even know where to start with this. It's been a week, and if there was any doubt that this would be anything but a dismantling of established rules, of... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Sweet/Vicious

  

  Jules: I know how to do things most people don't. There is stuff happening out there and no one is doing anything about it. People are just getting away with... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2017 TV & VIDEO

• "Misogyny Was Everywhere"

  Trump is patriarchy unbuttoned, paunchy, in a baggy suit, with his hair oozing and his lips flapping and his face squinching into clownish expressions of mocker... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/1/17

  Politics: Currently breaking: unverified reports that the Russian intelligence service possesses compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump (th... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Wesley Lowery: They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.Nancy Isenberg: White Trash. The... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  Albums: Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos.Solange - A Seat at the Table.Angel Olsen - My Woman.Blood Orange - Freetown Sound.Beyoncé - Lemonade.Savages - Adore... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  Best new show: UndergroundThere is nothing I could say about this show that Shannon M. Houston at Paste hasn't said much better.WestworldHow we construct and... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO