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...
In Defense of Pay It Forward, Pay It Back By Matt Bruenig Here’s an idea: let’s eliminate student debt and make college education free by increasing income...
Bleeding Past the Margin by Whit Frazier Early in Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, Bleeding Edge, the reluctant heroine, small-time fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow,...
Some Sort of Approach Towards Infinity: On Robert Ryman By Clay Matlin Robert Ryman has a new show at Pace. The paintings are white. Six of them are...
Transformation and Process by Meredith Benjamin “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed...