Vicente was, in many ways, NXIVM’s chief propagandist. I shouldn’t be surprised by this exaggerated performance of victimhood. I’d feel guilty for making my wife sleep next me on the floor, too. But he lets her forgive him a few too many times.
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Do you find yourself too “white-nized” to be fully non-white, but too non-white to be white?
Who needs Representation when you have Suggestion?
These shows have built into them opportunities to show sides of the sixties that have seldom been seen before in mainstream media, and yet they don’t take them.
What does this election mean to you?
I sat in the park for two hours with my crooked teal-lettered sign talking to New Yorkers.
Henry Drobbin Talks Unions, Layoffs, and Restructuring
“It’s union busting. To have clear and direct language in a collective bargaining agreement, a precedent that has been followed for ten years, and then to cast it aside and say, ‘We don’t follow that. We don’t need to have this conversation with the union.”
Restructuring the Conversation: Richard Bernstein on The New School Layoffs
“For six months now, they’ve been talking to us about restructuring. There’s now a task force about this, but no one has a concrete idea of what that restructuring means. All you have to work on is rumors, and that’s terrible […] No faculty member has a clue about what this concretely means and when it’s going to happen. And that, I know, has caused enormous anger and frustration.”
Born Sinner
On one of the first days of Morality, my teacher passed each student an index card and asked us to write whether we were pro-life or pro-choice.
Coming So Far to Fall
DIY touring requires a lot more than musical skill to make it work. You have to be comfortable with a not insignificant level of humiliation.
Ambiguous Asian Blend
“So, what kind of South Asian are you?” the bartender asks coolly.
Me & Mary Frances
“Mary Frances” is my own invention. That was how her friends and family referred to her, but she’s better known as MFK Fisher, the matriarch of food writing.