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Asian Girlz, White Patriarchy, and the Politics of Aesthetics 24 Aug 2013 | 07:38 am
Chad Shomura Johns Hopkins University Recently, a music video called “Asian Girlz” by a talentless band has inflamed Asia America. It is not worth attention. But in this age of viral videos, it's dif...
Nationalism, Tech Giants, and Spy States 10 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
John Buell is a columnist for The Progressive Populist and a faculty adjunct at Cochise College. His most recent book is Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age. Despite persistent efforts ...
Gay Love Conquers All 15 Jul 2013 | 09:02 am
Dean Mathiowetz UC Santa Cruz Recent Supreme Court decisions regarding same-sex marriage, United States vs. Windsor and Hollingsworth vs. Perry, were greeted with celebration by LGBT people, by Ameri...
“The East” and Corporate Terrorism 7 Jul 2013 | 11:21 pm
William E. Connolly Author of The Fragility of Things: self-organizing processes, neoliberal fantasies, democratic activism, Duke, fall, 2013 As I compose this I am sitting on a gorge in Ithaca, New ...
Cyprus and the Quest for Safe Havens 29 Jun 2013 | 07:12 am
John Buell is a columnist for The Progressive Populist and a faculty adjunct at Cochise College. His most recent book is Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age. As the European financial c...
Republicans ♥ Hobbes 21 Jun 2013 | 08:18 am
Steven Johnston Neal A. Maxwell Chair in Political Theory, Public Policy, and Public Service, University of Utah In 1651 Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan, a controversial work arguing for the creat...
The Keystone XL Pipeline Scenario 27 May 2013 | 09:43 pm
Kaushik Rao is a political theory student at Johns Hopkins University working on capitalism and ecology. Last year, oil companies such as TransCanada, Valero, and others pushed for the completion of ...
The Austerity Trap 8 May 2013 | 11:41 pm
John Buell is a columnist for The Progressive Populist and a faculty adjunct at Cochise College. His most recent book is Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age. The Eurozone is in a deep r...
The Dilemma of Electoral Politics 21 Mar 2013 | 02:27 am
William E. Connolly Connolly's forthcoming book is entitled The Fragility of Things: self-organizing processes, neoliberal fantasies, democratic activism. The dangers posed by climate change and pote...
On the Use and Misuse of Zero Dark Thirty 15 Mar 2013 | 05:30 am
Steven Johnston University of Utah Everybody, it seems, wants a piece of Zero Dark Thirty. Not, perhaps, since Oliver Stone’s JFK has an American film generated such widespread censure. Hollywood insi...
