All Essays

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  In Reply to Hanif Kureishi, from the Alpine Ski Slopes of the Winter Paralympics

  If we don’t learn to listen to the body, which has elements we cannot know exist, we cannot be our selves.

  Lytton SmithMar 19, 2014
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  Girls, Season 3: "I Saw You"

  The Labor of Self

  Anne Helen PetersenMar 17, 2014
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  Gregor Samsa: Drone Operator

  In the era of drone warfare, the body is little more than an embarrassing reminder of what the soldier has in common with the enemy.

  David Burr Gerrard Mar 17, 2014
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  The Hollywood Reporter: On Anne Thompson's "The $11 Billion Year"

  Ted ScheinmanMar 17, 2014
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  Structural Violence on Trial: BDS and the Movement to Resist Erasure

  A one-of-a-kind forum on the proposed academic boycott of Israel and the BDS movement, featuring Russell Berman, Colin Dayan, Noura Erakat, David Lloyd, David Myers, Cary Nelson, David Palumbo-Liu, and Judea Pearl.

  Noura ErakatMar 16, 2014

• The Problem with Judith Butler: The Political Philosophy of the Movement to Boycott Israel

  A one-of-a-kind forum on the proposed academic boycott of Israel and the BDS movement, featuring Russell Berman, Colin Dayan, Noura Erakat, David Lloyd, David Myers, Cary Nelson, David Palumbo-Liu, and Judea Pearl.

  Mar 16, 2014
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  What Threatens Israel Most? Democracy

  A one-of-a-kind forum on the proposed academic boycott of Israel and the BDS movement, featuring Russell Berman, Colin Dayan, Noura Erakat, David Lloyd, David Myers, Cary Nelson, David Palumbo-Liu, and Judea Pearl.

  David LloydMar 16, 2014

• Why I Oppose a Boycott, Mostly

  A one-of-a-kind forum on the proposed academic boycott of Israel and the BDS movement, featuring Russell Berman, Colin Dayan, Noura Erakat, David Lloyd, David Myers, Cary Nelson, David Palumbo-Liu, and Judea Pearl.

  Mar 16, 2014

• BDS, Racism and the New McCarthyism

  Mar 16, 2014

• The Goal of the Boycott

  Mar 16, 2014

• Why an Academic Boycott?

  Mar 16, 2014
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  The Boycott Effect

  Colin DayanMar 16, 2014
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  Why the World Needs a Pay Raise

  Stewart Lansley on why low wages create an unsustainable economy, and why people around the globe need a raise.

  Stewart LansleyMar 15, 2014
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  Wes Anderson’s Elegy to Stefan Zweig

  On "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

  Max NelsonMar 14, 2014
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  Applied Enlightenment

  Honoring the literary life

  Drew CalvertMar 14, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  A Tale of Two Freuds: Thinking in Pictures

  George ProchnikMar 13, 2014