The Prehistory of Queer Celebrity
How Sontag, Baldwin, and Vidal contributed to gay liberation.
Author: Stanford University Press
How to Stop Trump from Evading What’s Undeniably Impeachable
Why words alone do not convey all the meaning in Trump’s phone call with Zelensky.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Turns Towards Hollywood
Going beyond the label of propaganda in regime media. NARGES BAJOGHLI Parade of IRGC tank transporters. Photo by Mohammad Sadegh Heydari via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International . A professionally produced video surfaced on Iranian social media the last week of August. …
Should We Use International Test Scores To Compare The Quality Of Nations’ Educational Systems?
For the past two decades, based on international tests measuring student performance in math, science, and reading, countries around the world have been told where their educational systems rank compared to others.
Remembering (and forgetting) Old Poetry
Why Thomas Wyatt’s They Flee From Me still means Something, and How. PETER MURPHY Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt by Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1535-37. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Picture a bright modern classroom, somewhere, in which students sit, perhaps in a semicircle …
A Personal Experience
The Frederick Chavalit Tsao Story FREDERICK CHAVALIT TSAO Free for commercial use via Pixabay. We are proud to present an excerpt from Quantum Leadership: New Consciousness in Business by Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Chris Laszlo. IMC’s Origins To fully understand my ideas of business …
A Look Inside Biomedical Growth in Asia
Martin Kenney interviews Beyond Technonationalism author Kathryn Ibata-Arens KATHRYN C. IBATA-ARENS and MARTIN KENNEY Free for commercial use via Pixabay. Martin Kenney: What made you write this book? Kathryn Ibata-Arens: Before we get started, I would like to thank you for the opportunity …
Taking stakeholders, rather than Milton Friedman, seriously
Beyond “shared value” approaches for corporate social responsibility SARAH KAPLAN Free for commercial use via Pixabay. For decades, we have mythologized Milton Friedman’s 1970 dictate that corporations have a primary responsibility to deliver financial returns to their shareholders. But, the winds are shifting. Former …
What We Talk About When We Talk About Borders
How the Soconusco became a space for migrants, political organizers, and economic opportunity. CASEY MARINA LURTZ Map of the republic of Guatemala (1895). Mueller, A. H. [Philadelphia: S.N] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress Say “the border” and minds jump to the Rio Grande, …
Implicated Subjects, Reparations, and the Afterlives of Slavery
To confront the legacies of slavery we need a new theory of historical responsibility MICHAEL ROTHBERG “Reparations” by Daquella manera is licensed under CC CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication When I wrote about the question of reparations for slavery in my new book, The Implicated Subject, I did …
