Paul Simon was asked to say a few words during a concert back in 1973.…
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
Alex Sayf Cummings is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University, whose work deals with technology, law, public policy, and the political culture of the modern United States. Alex's writing has appeared in Salon, the Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, Al Jazeera, and Southern Cultures, among other publications, and the book Democracy of Sound was published by Oxford University Press in 2013 (paperback, 2017). Alex can be followed on Twitter at @akbarjenkins.
An increasingly stupid world takes solace in Liz Phair, Quixotic cheese, pink buses, and beaver emojis in this week’s round-up.
The always great Lizzo likely understands junk race-science better than the other great Lizzo (Warren). Alas.
Jordan Peele’s new film looks at the terror of white supremacy and the savagery of capitalism from an equally terrifying angle.
Tropics of Meta has not and likely will not come out with an endorsement in the 2020 US presidential race. But the handsy guy… let’s go with a “no.”
A week of truly epic, virtuosic horse-shit reached its tragic crescendo today, with the murder…
What a week. America saw two great injustices visited on the undeserving among us: Mexican…
There are two dirty secrets about grad school, at least where money is concerned.
