Under Review: Oleanna
While linguist Robin Lackoff claims that men in academia are a group which has “taken itself out of the search for power and money”, the intersection between education, elitism, status, and masculinity is writ large in Boulevard Productions’ excellent new adaptation of David Mamet’s Oleanna,
re: The death penalty in Israel
On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed a law that expanded the use of capital punishment in its justice system. The bones of the system look like this: In the civil court system, the death penalty can now be applied to any individual who acts with the intent of ‘negating the exist
