Over at the Solidarity Webzine, I am blogging about the healthcare debate. Check it out!

If you're not involved with the revolutionary / socialist left in some way, the premise of this discussion is probably kind of "inside baseball." Indeed, that was part of what motivated me to write the piece: discussions around healthcare with my friends, many ( Read more... )

I went to the inaugural ceremony this morning at the Oakland Arena, which I guess is now sponsored by Oracle.  (Where the Warriors play.  I can't keep track of the names of Bay Area sports venues anymore, they change so often.  I hate how deferential sports announcers are to sponsors' naming rights.  The funny thing is that the names I am attached ( Read more... )

Hello gentle readers,

I am recovering from my qualifying exams, which were Thursday.  (For the non-academics out there, this is a step towards a PhD, basically the last hurdle before the dissertation - in our department, more or less a chance for the professors on your committee to engage with you about your work.)  Therefore, I haven't made any ( Read more... )

Okay, not really, but I was procrastinating tonight and decided to listen to her speech (which was an interesting experience in and of itself due to no TV and a sketchy internet connection).  I thought she came across well, and for Democrats there will be a danger of overreaching in expecting her selection to be a big mistake.  Yes, there are ( Read more... )

I realize that this is the first presidential election since 1992 for which I haven't watched any televised coverage.  I've been following the race, but I'm missing some of the pre-digested storylines that would convince me that a presidential election actually was taking place ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write something of a review of The Dark Knight in this blog for a while.  Over the last two days I have had two occasions to recount my analysis verbally to friends, and they have looked at me as if I'm ... saying something complicated or strange.  I think my analysis is actually kind of cultural-studies-101, so I won't be ( Read more... )

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