‘Independence’ Day
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, s
The ISIS meets Larry Sanders
Our broadcasting team met with Larry Sanders in Oxford to talk all things politics. Cover Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth
Kin calling out the past like a foreigner
‘Citizen’ is a charged and genre-defying artwork about institutionalised racism.
Glass Ceilings
The masses of LA are not living in Stahl Houses today because the Stahl House was never replicated.
Trump, Muslims, and human decency
What his fans care about—and what Trump gloriously brings—is the hyper-masculine “total knowledge of a passion which rises erect and alone”, the atmosphere and essence of an anti-establishment rebellion.
In Satan We Trust
“Given the erection of a statue of the Ten Commandments in the Oklahoma State Capital, it is only fair that a statue of the occult deity Baphomet also be erected, in the name of respect for the inclusion of religious minorities.”
To Chelsea
Clinton. If the name stings, will you wear the veil while tending the bees? When the dynasty burns, will you carry the water jug or the torch? Did you envy the man with the face tattoo? Avoid strangers who claimed they knew you? I do. It’s only a story, says Chelsea. Today it’s me, tomorrow [&he
The Masked Man’s a Fag: From Lenny Bruce to South Park
Efraim Carlebach talks about his online project which traces a politics of masking in American popular culture through a montage of quotations, guided by a reinvented deck of tarot cards.
The Hitchens Cult
“And it was again the feeling that everything I loved was being attacked by everything I hated. So it was almost exhilarating.”
