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The Word “Fuck” in History

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On September 14, 2015
News you can use: Paul Booth, a historian at Keele University in England, found three examples dating from 1310 and 1311 of a man known in legal documents as Roger Fuckebythenavel. Booth said he believes Roger was not the bearer of a very unfortunate family...
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Reconsidering The Wire

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On May 5, 2015
Dave Zirin has an excellent essay about reconsidering The Wire in the wake of the police murdering Freddie Gray. And he's right--one thing missing from the show is how the police are actively part of the oppression of the poor and African-Americans in Baltimore and...

Stewart

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On February 10, 2015
It's hard to imagine The Daily Show without Jon Stewart, but this is probably a good time for him to leave. Once the 2016 elections start, it would be awfully hard to leave. I haven't watched The Daily Show regularly in years, really since Obama...

The Wire: It’s No 24!

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On August 25, 2014
Dylan Matthews dug up Neil Genzlinger's New York Times' original review of The Wire. To say the least, it hasn't aged well. It's all served up in dialogue heavy with police-speak and dealer-speak, sometimes unintelligibly so. The language is supposed to be realistic and maybe...
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