Out There
I was putting myself out there. On my return to San Francisco from a bleak Thanksgiving with my surviving relatives in Illinois, I downloaded Tinder, Bumble, and a few other apps I’d seen Instagram ads for. I resolved to pass judgment on several hundred men per day,...
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
The house is dry and creaky. I am sopping on the floor. I hear him. No. Aunt or uncle rolling over in the bed. I’m not at peace here anymore. Now today. Glad. They’ll be gone. Still. I hear something. I know that step. Forty-one just like new. He is coming early down...
Massive Attack Deconstructed
Listen to Massive Attack Deconstructed DJ Mix byBEATS ATLAS on hearthis.at Hearing Massive Attack's Blue Lines when it came out was a total game changer for me. Soulful, but uber-cool with those cool hip hop breaks. This mix is my 60 minute voyage through Massive...
JR
—Structuring the material in terms of the ongoing ahm, situation yes, on Mozart’s, ah, Ring, is it? —I noticed something here . . . Mister Ford spoke for the first time with the commanding indifference of an old-school drawl, running his finger down a catalogued...
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
The Economic Consequences of State Capture, putting state capture in the US in global context. In struggling democracies around the world, small cliques of politicians, business elites, and politicians with business interests—what political scientists call...