Something is out of joint: Overworked and underpaid graduate students are taking on major teaching responsibilities, apparently at least in part so that parents can get a discount on tuition, and professors can produce books and articles of dubious societal… Continue reading

The local name for the Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington is “the Badlands,” and with good reason. Pockmarked with empty lots and burned-out row houses, the area has an unemployment rate of 29 percent and a poverty rate of 90 percent.… Continue reading

Jo Fitzpatrick‎UK sculptor Robin Wight creates dramatic scenes of wind-blown fairies clutching dandelions, clinging to trees, and seemingly suspended in midair, all with densely wrapped forms of stainless steel wire. The artist currently has several pieces on view at the… Continue reading

As correctional facilities in the U.S. struggle to address a long-term surge in inmates with mental health issues, a New York Times exposé on the city’s Rikers Island jail demonstrates in brutal and specific detail what happens when corrections officers… Continue reading

Following several high-profile, controversial decisions, Bill speaks to NY Times columnist Linda Greenhouse and Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick about the agenda of the Roberts court.Source: billmoyers.comIt’s hard for anybody looking at the Roberts SCOTUS objectively to come away not thinking that… Continue reading

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 Earlier this month, Facebook dropped a bombshell by not only acknowledging that Facebook pages’ organic reach was declining but also by telling us we shouldn’t expect them to recover. Facebook’s VP of Product for Facebook Ads, Brian Boland, went on… Continue reading

Puritans, Goths, avant-garde artists, hell-raising poets and fashion icon Coco Chanel all saw something special in it. Now black, that most enigmatic of colours, has become even darker and more mysterious.Source: www.independent.co.uk Continue reading

At a time when anti-intellectualism runs rampant throughout popular culture and politics, it seems imperative to remember how important critical thought can be as a resource and critical tool.Source: www.truth-out.org”Thinking has become dangerous in the United States.” Continue reading

Denton, Texas, is considering a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and a new study links this process of energy extraction with earthquakes. NPR’s Arun Rath considers the risks with science writer Abrahm Lustgarten.Source: www.npr.org Continue reading

Review of a new edited edition of Michael Oakshott’s Notebooks. Source: www.literaryreview.co.uk Continue reading

The cumulative blitz on energy exploration and production over the past six years has been $5.4 trillion, yet little has come of itSource: www.telegraph.co.uk Continue reading

Everything we empirically experience is myth and metaphor. All that we experience with the senses points to a parallel archetypal reality. As above, so below. The universe we experience everyday hints at the universe within. This is why, say in… Continue reading

“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the blisSource: www.brainpickings.org Continue reading

The reality is that the government and the economy are so thoroughly integrated it is impossible to separate the two.Source: truth-out.orgGDP is telling us the value of goods and services the economy produced. It is not telling us whether the… Continue reading

SANTA CLARITA, California—Cesar Millan crosses the road to meet me. Two pit bulls, a Chihuahua, and a Yorkshire terrier—named Junior, Taco, Alfie and Kaley Cuoko—follow. Off leash and at heel, the dogs are calm, almost languid. If Millan communicates with… Continue reading

If you want to see the clearest symptoms of the prion disease that has devoured the brain of the Republican party, the state Republican party is your Patient Zero. And, before a whole bunch of people in the Beltway media… Continue reading