Editorial: The Purpose of the Academic Boycott The founder of the Jesuit Order, Ignatius of Loyola, is credited with having infamously said, “In a fortress under...
Subtle Message, Broad Response: On Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby” MELISSA PHRUKSACHART The experience of Kara Walker’s exhibition “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby” begins in the...
Is the Fight for $15 the New Eight Hour Workday? by James Hoff The time has come for a real living wage and US workers must not wait...
Ignored at Our Own Peril By Russ Wellen The name Lawrence of Arabia was bestowed upon T.E. Lawrence as if he were an earl,...
A Ham Sandwich is Not Literature By James D. Hoff Like many a good Brit, Terry Eagleton has a knack for conflating the comic and...
Being Craft, Being Beauty – On Alison Elizabeth Taylor By Clay Matlin Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s art has come to a distinct and troubling crossroads. With Surface Tension, her...
Art and Politics in Class Society By Ross Wolfe Ben Davis’s 9.5 Theses on Art and Class has clearly struck a chord with contemporary artistic...
Pay It Forward, Pay It Back: Matt Bruenig and Mike Konczal Debate By Matt Bruenig Here’s an idea: let’s eliminate student debt and make college education free by increasing income...
Matt Bruenig Responds to Mike Konczal By Matt Bruenig To respond to Mike Konczal requires first some clarification. One analogy that might make things...
The Trouble with Pay It Forward, Pay It Back By Mike Konczal In his 1975 collection of essays There’s No Such Thing As a Free Lunch, the...