Hands off Protests
and reporting in media
Workers Protest Abrupt Layoffs
at Guggenheim Museum
Behind Closed Doors
The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in an English translation by Elise Magistro. Messina, who died in 1944,…
Defoe and the Distance to Utopia
In Defoe’s Captain Singleton, published a year later, the eponymous pirate comes back home with new notions of equality and communal property. Indeed, as Defoe teaches us, the highest ideals…
Love is where you find it
you lie about that, you lie about everything
Porphyrios (whale)
Porphyrios (Greek: Πορφύριος) was a large whale that harassed and sank ships in the waters near Constantinople in the sixth century. Active for over fifty years, Porphyrios caused great concern…
International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court
The attorney for Roy and his fellow plaintiffs, Charles Kuck, argued the government did not have legal grounds to terminate the students’ status. He speculated in court last week the…
Why them and not me?
-Pope Francis
“Have you been to space?”
no mother fucker, we got bills and shit
This is cruelty, this is not war
-Pope Francis