I spent over forty hours traveling to and from Hong Kong last week, and I found myself unable to sleep on the trip home. Overall, I did some academic work, read a good chunk of a history of the Qin and Han empires, and then...
Culture
Last year on this blog for International Men's Day I wrote about men wearing "women's clothes" while still identifying as male. That trend is of course nothing new, in all.
It is official: dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been killed but the US shouldn't do anything about it because we have billions of dollars worth of weapons to sell.
There are lots of weeks when it has been rough to look at the news, but these weeks surrounding the allegations of sexual misconduct around Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been one of the more bitter for me. Not so much because of...
The music video for Childish Gambino's chart topping song “This Is America” won three MTV Video Music Awards this past week, including Best Direction, Best Choreography, and Best Video With.
In my new gig as a blogger for the International Observatory of Human Rights, I talk about the ways journalists, human rights workers, and humanitarians are turning to animation to.
We lost another multigenerational political and popular icon this week with the passing of Aretha Franklin. Though she lived a full life, performing right until the very end, I still think 76 is far too young. I won't rehash any of the great obituaries out...
The first episode of the new show "Who Is America?" doesn't live up to the hype from the Earth-shaking NRA sketch. Blogmate Simon Balto brought your attention to the viral.
About this time last year, I wrote a Flashback Friday post about weddings and memory..
Last week I had the opportunity to tear into the newly released manuscript of Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story Of The Last Black Cargo with a fantastic supplemental material from Alice Walker and Deborah G. Plant. It is the written record of a series...
Happy 200th Birthday birthday Karl Marx! Welcome to the Internet! I need to start this post by qualifying that I do not identify as a Marxist, even if I am.
Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare's 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all,.