I'm reading Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism today. I'm barely through the introduction, actually, but already am seeing ways to incorporate her work into what i'm hoping to accomplish some day, some how. I've been struggling lately with the criticality...
Our department party was today. Lovely. It took all my will-power to go, but now that i've gone, i'm glad that i did. I made a red wine spritzer and spent nearly two hours drinking it. Look social with a drink in your hand, don't...
We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.Global capitalism becomes a machine devouring our planet. The little finger, the men and women of the poorest 20%, are reduced...
We saw a preview for The Debt last night. It struck a nerve in me - one associated with our notions of morality. Had the Nazi's won, had Western Europe or even the U.S. decided they weren't so wrong, after all, their own morality would...
There is a fallacy among friends and families of grad students that we have "summers off"...