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Given the day's rather bizarre turn here, it seems like a good enough time to remind all of you with Netflix account that Traffic in Souls, the ridiculous 1913 film.
The idiocy never stops. See also.
Elevating a comment from the Erik's post: The scholarship on sex trafficking portrays a much more complex picture of the sex industry. Pointing to this complexity is not a rationalization of human rights abuses. But it is necessary both for understanding what the problem...
Good luck with this fellas: Newt Gingrich has a crazy idea. Sources close to his dwindling campaign say he is in talks with Rick Perry in hopes of getting him.
Diane Ravitch rips Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the New York Review of Books, grading him an F on every front: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan loves evaluation. He.
Callum McCormick has a very thoughtful essay on the legacy of Hugo Chavez from a leftist perspective. The upshot: While a defeat would for Chavez would be a setback for the left and perhaps ignite a ‘carnival of reaction’ across the continent, the more fundamental...
Laura Augustín has an interesting piece at The Naked Anthropologist critiquing men like Nick Kristof who go around the world playing the role of the good white man saving brown.
I maintain that rising gas prices are the biggest threat to Obama's reelection. New polling by the Washington Post suggests this is probably correct. I do think that, no matter.
I've decided to get out of the academia game while the going's so abysmal there's a chance that hope might peak behind a horizon, and like many a former liberal turned charlatan, I've decided to leave academia an albatross trove of intellectual history that'll include...
There's an effort to turn the site of the 1894 Pullman Strike into a national park site. You should support this. I have not yet discussed the Pullman Strike in.
Ned Resnikoff really gets after Jessica Flanigan for misunderstanding the relationship between the labor movement and Progressives of the early 20th century. Flanigan: Internal to progressivism there is a tension.