Be Safe and Have a Great Day. TSA Cares!
Just ran across these wire stories today (NPR, CNN) about the recent travel regulations the TSA is imposing on some direct flights into the US, once more proving that TSA Cares! Reading these...
political analysis
Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement Says ‘FU’ to Beijing Communists with Online Vote
The Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) pro-democracy movement has been steadily growing in China, much to the chagrin of mainland Communists, and their pro-business autocracy in Hong Kong. OCLP recently began...
Note on Race at Eugene Lang College, The New School Meetings
The following set of reflections and notes are from two recent meetings held at The New School as part of a grant from the Mellon Foundation that Lang faculty received to look at...
Making Monsters – A Genealogy of Elliot Rodger and His Twisted World
(Trigger Warning!!! more| Updated) Before I begin, let me frame this piece briefly. I wrote this after spending the Memorial Day weekend trying to unravel the story of Elliot Rodger–his past, his actions,...
Dirty Secrets and Wicked Problems
My latest column in the New School Free Press came out this week. You can read the whole piece right here. I’m posting a teaser below as an update. It’s generally considered taboo...
Noah – The First Environmentalist
[Spoiler Alert**] While watching the new Noah movie by Darren Aronofsky, I couldn’t help but notice some strong eco-animist undertones, which struck me as quite odd given the centrality of this story for...
