Blue Beetle Review – Superhero Fun With Immigrant Survival Subtext
The Guardian
Blue Beetle Review – Superhero Fun With Immigrant Survival Subtext
Florida’s Academic Standards Distort the Contributions That Enslaved Africans Made to American Society
The Conversation
Florida would have students believe that enslaved Black people “benefited” by developing skills during slavery; the reality is that enslaved Africans contributed to the nation’s social, cultural and economic well-being using skills they had already.
Star Trek Gave Us a Utopian Vision of an Egalitarian, Postcapitalist Future
Jacobin
Unlike many classic works of sci-fi, Star Trek offered an optimistic vision of humanity’s future — one where democracy triumphs, exploitation is ended, and everyone’s material needs are met.
What’s in a Name?
Who is Jack Smith? asks the poet Carol Kanter. Cross your fingers. Is he the hero who shows that someone with a fancier name is not above the law? Look it up.
The Gender of Capital
LSE Review of Books
In this book, writes reviewer Sharma, the authors argue that despite supposed equality, women in all classes of society are economically disadvantaged with respect to their husbands, fathers, and brothers.
The Raw, the Cooked and the Hydrolysed
The Dark Mountain Project
Marketing departments inject Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) with stories ranging from the banal (a cereal box cartoon character) and aspirational (health promises), to the manipulative such as ads picturing fast food eating as the center of family life
Foundation Is Fixing the Trickiest Thing About the Asimov Books
Inverse
Isaac Asimov was a science fiction giant. But the Apple TV version of Foundation addresses one place the books fell short. Foundation is no longer just a boy’s club.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Arkansas poet Gerald Sloan reminds us that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was no “act” but often lost to history and found again.
Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable
Los Angeles Review of Books
These books offer two approaches to the life and work of Wheatley, who is a cornerstone figure of the U.S. and African American literary traditions.
Why Barbie Must Be Punished
The NewYorker
"She was flawless, something had to be wrong. I wanted to heal her, but I also needed her sick. I wanted to become Barbie, and I wanted to destroy her. I wanted her perfection, but I also wanted to punish her for being more perfect than I’d ever be."
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