FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
In the early morning of April 30, 2024, we liberated Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. Nearly two weeks earlier, hundreds of people had constructed the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Butler…
The Job of Consent
In sex as elsewhere, consent is asked to do a lot. It is a kind of moral magic, legal theorist Heidi Hurd has suggested, that makes all kinds of unthinkable…
When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions. They spoke to me long before I had the pleasure of meeting their…
An American Education: Notes from UATX
A revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or…
Housewife Demonology
In the series’ penultimate episode, Mad Men’s depressive hausfrau Betty Draper trips in a stairwell on the Fairfield University campus and discovers she’s dying. Lung cancer at thirty-eight: unusual in…
FREE PALESTINE. STOP COP CITY.
In South Dekalb County, Georgia, the South River forest forms a canopy so lush and life-giving that it is referred to as one of the “four lungs of Atlanta.” This…
Novel Evil
Less than a century after it began, the popular lexicon of the Holocaust has become threadbare. It is so reduced to a few suggestive and uncontroversial narrative linchpins, trite and…
Two Months
If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long…
PACBI Now
This image is the current logo for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. When, in 1963, Samuel Beckett endorsed “Playwrights Against Apartheid,” a statement instructing…
Inflation Grips American Households: A Closer Look at the Financial Strain
The rising tide of inflation continues to tighten its grip on American households, casting a long shadow over the financial stability of families across the nation. As prices soar, many…