A Bangladeshi court banned the making of a film about one of the survivors of Rana Plaza for fear that the international attention might cause Bangladesh to lose its apparel industry. I’m skepti
@vacuumslayer Hard to believe I've spent 365 days ignoring a bunch of pasty entitled nerds after having been one for so long — norbizness (@norbizness) August 23, 2015 Thanks to everyone who
U.S. border agents stop Mexican immigrants crossing into United States, 1948 Neil Foley has written what I believe to be the first comprehensive history of Mexicans in U.S. history. It seems ridiculou
One point that many on the social justice side of the climate change issue repeat over and over is that the impacts of climate change are going to be felt primarily by the world’s poor. The weal
Anyone who wants to watch my appearance on CSPAN’s BookTV, you can do here at the link. I don’t think it goes away, but it might at some point. So watch it.
This weekend, the NYT ran an interesting article by a former waiter at one of New York’s Michelin three-star restaurants, who is now a graduate student: In a playground for the superrich, I was
Joe Thomas is the latest player to go after the NFL’s reprehensible commissioner over Ballghazi: Joe Thomas does not think the punishment fits the crime in the Deflategate saga. “I would e
This is a guest post by Dr. Colin Snider, who also blogs at Americas South and North. João Cândido Felisberto remains one of the more overlooked figures in one of the more overlooked periods of Braz