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Among my favorite nonfiction scholarly books is Austin T. Turk’s Political Criminality (1982). This volume presents a well thought out analysis of why individuals resort to crimes against states (and other similar entities) and how they respond. At its core, it is an exploration of power dynamics, with a focus on political deviance and the […]
Language (more specifically the labels, terms, and words we use) plays a critical role in shaping how we understand and engage with the world. The words we use not only shape the subject matter we talk about, but also carry political weight, that affects perceptions and reinforces power dynamics. In this context, debates about terminology […]
The Slow Food movement, which began in the mid-1980s in Bra, Italy, was a response to the rise of fast food and industrialized eating. Spearheaded by Carlo Petrini, an Italian activist and author, it encouraged people to embrace traditional cooking methods and a slower, more deliberate approach to food preparation. Predictably many articles and books […]
When I was an adolescent, my parents shipped me off to a month-long overnight summer camp for boys. Among the usual group of misfits in my cabin was a boy my age that we nicknamed Stinky. He had one quirky goal: to wear the same shirt every single day of camp. Predictably, the shirt got […]
There’s probably no musician alive today, whose music I’ve followed as closely, as Bob Dylan’s. Not only have I bought and listened to most of his albums, read articles and books about him, including his memoir Chronicles: Volume One, watched numerous music videos of him playing, but I’ve also seen him perform live. That being […]
