Bargaining with God
Why would I want to believe (if I do believe at all) in a God who requires blind faith and has destructive ethics, for whom we must be violent in order to show devotion?
Define Your Terms: Responding to Joshua Leifer’s Misguided Wall Street Allegations
The breadth and depth of financial services extends far beyond the scope of the causes of the financial crisis, and to identify a sector that comprises 9 percent of the economy or even any of the companies within that sector as wholly anything is a mistake.
Life, Pornified
A critical look at anti-porn activism at Princeton.
Work Life Balance
The Yale administration’s insistence on a student income contribution is reinforcing inequality along race and classlines.” So proclaims a new campaign launched at Yale, organized by the group Students Unite Now (SUN), aiming to eliminate the student income contribution for undergrads on financial aid. When I first heard of this movement, I thought their ambition seemed […]
Rememory
When the sodium lamps evaporate their tired stock, I wonder if walking home at night in the rain will still be such an ageless pleasure, a simple joy to watch you stagger up cement sidewalks, ringed in a corona of rusted lumen, a delight to watch it all hang in the balance, illuminated by an […]
Stay Tenacious
The report’s interpretation is not at odds with the Sotomayor speech, but doesn’t fully understand it, either.
I Am Not the Übermensch
Why do we feel compelled to shut down anything that deviates even slightly from the social standards to which we have unwittingly chained ourselves?
Seeing Myself Clearly
This binary between “school” and “cool” is something even my own parents, haters
of dim lighting and monthly contacts prescriptions, acknowledge as well, if only implicitly.
The Nose
I feel victorious over the Nazis. I feel ashamed.
Interview with Lester, Functional Humanoid
She looked at me and turned her thingie off. And said typical. And then turned over and kept vibrating.