Disclaimer: this blog post is based on my rather sloppy notes from a talk we attended, some direct quotes, some my own mid-talk ramblings in my head. I take full responsibility for any misrepresentations of the speaker's intent / content, and must point out that...
Yesterday, i wrote, "Interestingly enough, there were only about 10,000 slaves in the Louisiana territory under French rule in the 1760’s." Only. I shuddered. There is something wrong when the world "only" can be used to describe 10,000 lives in chains and the many 10's of...
Health and disease are powerful tropes in the construction of hierarchies in global geopolitics. Health stands in as a marker of civilization, sanitation as a sign of modernity just as disease denotes barbarism and uncleanliness is an indicator backwardness (Eamon 1998; Goudsblom 1986; Rothschild BM...
*notesfrom a bus ride* The thought that 'capitalism works' because it creates jobs where there weren't any ( n argument that I've heard from even my most espoused liberal friends) is a massive failure to understand that this 'stepping stone' toward greater productivity is, in fact...
My father is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He did multiple tours - he signed up for them. And he received many medals for his service. He even turned down a Purple Heart that he didn't feel he deserved (he stubbed and broke his...