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Remember the old New Yorker TOTN segment elite ethnography? Well,
Remember the old New Yorker TOTN segment elite ethnography? Well, that beat now belongs to Gawker hands down as the following, based on flight logs f...

Everyones linking the great fifteen minute interview with Adolph
Everyones linking the great fifteen minute interview with Adolph Reed. Heres a key passage: *** Reed: Following popular culture has been considered t...

Quite a good article by Jonathan Cook bringing up the
Quite a good article by Jonathan Cook bringing up the uncomfortable matter of how few left media personalities have the a) integrity and b) capacity t...

My Jacobin Magazine piece on jazz continues to inspire careful,
My Jacobin Magazine piece on jazz continues to inspire careful, disciplined and empirically sound analysis. One example of many below. Glad I could p...

File under: whatever it takes. INSPIRATION The Kobe 9 Elite
File under: whatever it takes. INSPIRATION The Kobe 9 Elite Low brings Bryant’s muses to life. The artistry of music and its ability to move and ...

Interesting variant of vampire leftism on display here: identity
Interesting variant of vampire leftism on display here: identity politics as hasbara. Come to think of it, Zionism might be seen as among the first a...

Cant say Im entirely surprised by this, but still a bit
Cant say Im entirely surprised by this, but still a bit shocking. To give you an example of how this is playing out: a climate justice group—whethe...

Interesting piece by Astra Taylor. The basic idea is that in a
Interesting piece by Astra Taylor. The basic idea is that in a society completely dominated by market fundamentalist/corporate capitalist ideology, th...