It’s that time of year when people in the world of academia remember what the word “anticlimactic” really means. All this building tension over the course of the semester, and then when it reaches its seeming crescendo in early December — splat.
Category: politics
Hope in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances has been a perennial theme in the…
As the notorious commitment-phobe Charles Dickens once said, it was the best of times, it…
History does not end and it does not stop. Its dark waters flow and can break their banks and drown us in the flood.
Tropics of Meta may be a good, clean, family blog about historiography, but we do…
No real best-of this week. Instead, we at Tropics of Meta are taking stock of…
Neoliberalism’s “casino capitalism” has stacked the political deck in favor of powerful private interests. At every step, however, protesters and other activists have opposed neoliberal logic and demanded the rights of people over the right to profits.
Why the culture of college debate explains Cruz’s greatest strength — and his greatest weakness
