Tag: Media

Jennifer Zacharia

For Shireen Abu Akleh

Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.

Jules Joanne Gleeson

In Defense of Transnormativity

Theorist Hil Malatino offers a compelling account of the persistent bad feelings with which trans people often struggle—but it comes with fashionable academic hang-ups that need to be reconsidered.

Jina Moore

The White Correspondent’s Burden

Today, the “savage nature” of Africa is still on display.

Simon Waxman

What Is Political Correctness?

The project of decontextualizing language.

Simon Waxman

Suffering and the Second Amendment Debate

Should gun deaths be spoken about in the debate about gun control?

Claude S. Fischer

#Ferguson: Did Social Media Really Fan the Flames?

However vast the media apparatus may be, the disturbances have not spread.

Lucy McKeon

Against Type

Broad City is a platonic “romance between two friends” who happen to be women.

John Crowley

Simon Stålenhag’s Alternate Histories

Amazon’s Tales from the Loop has introduced a new audience to the speculative worlds of the Swedish artist, whose books depict worlds in which humanity has, in one way or another, run afoul of technology.

Kevin M. Lerner

The News Is Dead, Long Live the News!

Public interest journalism may not be salvageable. But more than being saved, it needs to be radically rethought.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

The Captive Photograph

Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned, but ancestors to be cared for.

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