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Update: August 31

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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

The Chair Is Everything You Expect, And That’s The Problem

Excerpt: The structure remains intact.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Pandemic

The COVID Deaths We Can’t Count

Excerpt: I am in despair. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On the Obamas as Nouveaux Riches

Excerpt: Who among us, including landed gentry and nobility with four-hundred-year-old castles, are not always already nouveaux in our riches? 

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Update: August 17

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Animals Pandemic

Grief

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Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Created the Cuomos

Excerpt: The public, watching, laughing, and cheering on these two brothers, was always fully complicit. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Politics

Obama’s Birthday Bash Is For Neoliberal Elites

Excerpt: As the first neoliberal president, the first such to think about himself as not merely a public figure but as an economic entity, Obama needed to monetise his legacy and make himself a desirable commodity that could in turn create an empire of wealth and influence for the elites he had cultivated over his eight years. 

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Update: August 3

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Pandemic

Stop Blaming the Unvaccinated

Excerpt: If we really want to control this pandemic, we need to think of broad systemic changes which involve more vaccinations, yes, but also ways of actually taking care of everyone, including those infected and unvaccinated. 

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