Archive - October 15th, 2017
We Snuck into Seattle’s Super Secret White Nationalist Convention
“Visiting speakers have been surprised by the turn out in Seattle. Taylor told me that the meeting was actually bigger than similar events he has attended around the country. In a podcast following an earlier forum, Kevin MacDonald said he was impressed by both the turn out and superior quality of the attendees. Originally, Dr. […]
What I Don’t Tell My Students About ‘The Husband Stitch’
“Machado is teaching us that truth and logic only occasionally overlap. When you start poking at the idea of an absolute truth, a truth unfiltered through someone’s perception, it can fall apart entirely.” The first story in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ brings up big questions about who we believe and why […]
The Whisper Network After Harvey Weinstein and “Shitty Media Men”
“. We excuse or dodge bad behavior in our social circles—a moral error, even if the behavior is outside the bounds of the workplace or the law. I think we also underestimate the degree to which these various systems—formal, modest, chaotic—might require each other’s existence. It would be a waste of an exhausting political moment […]