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Occupy Wall Street is feminist
Published January 3, 2012
Since this Seven Days column was published, my view of the position of women in OWS has gotten less peachy. Nonetheless, here’s my take on parallels between OWS and Greenham Women’s Common, the feminist anti-militarist encampment that lasted 12 years in Britain.
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The 99 Percent Fight Back — Finally!
Published October 12, 2011
OWS doesn’t have demands — they have desires.
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Maximum Security
Published August 20, 2011
The longing for perfect safety has so suffused both our psyches and our public policy that it is now all but invisible.
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Coup d’etat
Published August 20, 2011
I used to hope for the end of government. But these days, I’m feeling sort of warm and squishy toward the good old corrupt, corporatized, compromised U.S. Constitutional system.
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Case Study: “Barry O.”
Published July 20, 2011
Here’s my analysis — psychoanalysis, that is — of the Neurotic in Chief.
I wrote it in the middle of the debt ceiling debate. Now that it’s over (and I mean over for everyone), it seems even more true.
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Neither Victim Nor Executioner
Published May 16, 2011
Osama is dead. Can we go home now?
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Freedom Spring
Published April 28, 2011
Passover, liberation, spring.
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Hungry Heart
Published April 18, 2011
Fasting against the budget cuts on the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Some thoughts on moral division in the U.S.
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Airborne Toxic Event
Published March 31, 2011
In Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, a train tank car derails, releasing its contents — a chemical called Nyodene Derivative, or Nyodene D — in a black, billowing cloud. The narrator’s son Heinrich reports that Nyodene D has been found to cause “urgent lumps” in rats. As for humans, no one is sure. The authorities at [...]
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Aggravated Assault
Published March 21, 2011
News of the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl went national on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. What it showed: We haven’t come a long way.