Cultural Politics… On the Events in Egypt 11 Feb 201111 Feb 2011 I ride a train some mornings, hurtling south in darkness toward the port of Tacoma, past shadowed bridges, around fields glazed with frost, through tentative and unheard bird songs. Today,…
American Foreign Policy… The “Ground Zero Mosque”: The View from China 31 Aug 2010 I spent about an hour yesterday at China's biggest mosque, which is located not in Beijing or Urumuqi, but in Xi'an, the hub of Shaanxi province and the gateway to…
Pensee Sanity Tactic #1 23 Feb 2010 Every time someone says the name "Glenn Beck," pretend they said "Max Weber" instead.
Cultural Politics… Nazi Propaganda and Fox News 24 Aug 200924 Aug 2009 In researching a previous post, I became curious about the following image used by Glenn Beck in his bizarre equation of President Obama's health care legislation with Nazi eugenics policies:…
Cultural Politics… Nazi Propaganda, East Asian Dictators, and Glenn Beck 16 Aug 200921 Aug 2009 Today I spent some time leafing through a solemn black notebook filled with sketches made primarily in the stacks at the University of Washington Suzzalo Library, reminding myself that not…