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October 7, 2017
On Catalonia and the referendum
To suggest that the issue with the referendum specifically, and the Catalan government’s pursuit of independence from Spain more generally, is that it is not legal under Spanish law presumes that under Spanish law there exists some legal and democratic path to independence. But the Spanish constitution makes no such provisions for secession.
November 13, 2016
The event of Trump’s election looked like it was already being absorbed into the banality of the post-material marketplace.
I’m afraid that if I say the wrong thing there might be a knock at my door in the middle of the night, and on the other side of it someone who won’t wait for me to say “come in.”
September 14, 2016
In Memory of Alexis Arquette
The always deferential Huffington Post noted at the end of its article on Alexis Arquette’s death that it had “reached out to a representative for Alexis for further clarification on how the actor identified at the time of death.”
January 27, 2014
But first things first: Why Elise Vans? The question by which the answer must be preceded is: “Why Eli S. Evans?”
June 8, 2012
The economic crisis here has provided rhetorical cover for large-scale “liberalization.”
December 2, 2011
Berlusconi’s fall has been imminent—torturously, impossibly imminent—for as long as many of us care to remember
September 14, 2011
For all that is easy about Those Guys Have All the Fun, however, there is also something uneasy about it.
August 24, 2011
Wisconsin has gone blue, as they say, in the last two presidential elections, but just barely.
August 4, 2011
In his swift and ferocious fall, my reasons for hating Tiger have been just as swiftly effaced.
May 20, 2011
The protests’ celebratory feeling appeared validated—albeit barely—on the morning after the supreme court election.
The Battle of Wisconsin is only the latest front in this intra-class culture war.
October 4, 2010
Reforms, after all, are political. Reforms are made. More, they change something that already exists.
