Work It
Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn’t allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all.
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Steve Kindred, Irrepressible Radical
Steve Kindred (1944–2014).
Legoland Lost
The Lego Movie’s emphasis on creative and spontaneous play clashes with what the toys have become.
Stuart Hall (1932–2014)
Stuart Hall was, first and foremost, a person driven by political commitment.
“We’re All Staying”
Hamburg is experiencing a broad While racism rages through much of Europe, Hamburg is experiencing the opposite: a broad movement for refugee rights combined with a struggle for the right to the city. refugee rights combined with a struggle for the right to the city.
After the Flood
Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic trilogy sees localized resistance to a dystopian future.
The Labor of Social Media
The battles over whether communities on Twitter are good or bad, toxic or supportive, obscure the labor that sustains all social networks.
Jewfros in Palestine
Many of Israel’s defenders hold entirely reasonable positions — so long as they forget that there are actual Palestinians living there.
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014)
To see Philip Seymour Hoffman even in films that you hated was to come away awed.
New York’s War on Academic Freedom
The New York State Legislature is readying to pass a bill that would make it illegal for any college or university in the state to use public monies to fund faculty membership in — or travel to — academic organizations that boycott the institutions of another country.
The Beauty of the Blacklist
Pete Seeger sacrificed to fight the blacklist. How many of us would have done the same?
The Sound of the Small C
Pete Seeger represented a musical tradition that can’t be divorced from American radicalism.