Paul Jackson's Reading List

A student writes in her notebook in Managua, Nicaragua (Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters) Last week Heritage Foundation scholar Jason Richwine, coauthor of a hotly disputed new study on the fiscal costs of…

nytimes.com 4min

Some of My Best Friends Are Germs

By MICHAEL POLLAN May 15, 2013

I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on Marc

lowendtheory.org 11min

On Audre Lorde's Legacy and the "Self" of Self-Care, Part 2 of 3

[Image: from the Black Community Survival Conference, DeFremery (locally known as Lil’ Bobby Hutton) Park, Oakland, CA, March 29, 1972. I first encountered this image via Alondra…

brainpickings.org 2min

The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin’s Timeless…

By Maria Popova April 15, 2013

“The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.” “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open,” Stephen King advised.…

counterpunch.org 16min

Detroit and the International War of the Rich on the Poor

By RICH GIBSON March 28, 2013

Every Detroit teacher was fired in the fall of 2012. Apparently, the nation did not notice. Hence, this story. On March 26, 2013, 78% of the voting members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers…

sfonline.barnard.edu 4min

Beyond Marriage: Democracy, Equality, and Kinship for a New Century

By Lisa Duggan

A few weeks after September 11, 2001, I went with my ex-lover to register as domestic partners with the city of New York. We had never registered our relationship with any state agency during the 17…

apps.npr.org 17min

Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America

By Chana Joffe-Walt

By Chana Joffe-WaltIn the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the…

nytimes.com 2min

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel

By REBECCA SKLOOT March 23, 2013

LAST week, scientists sequenced the genome of cells taken without consent from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She was a black tobacco farmer and mother of five, and though she died in 1951, her…

antipodefoundation.org 25min

Book Review – Mazen Labban on Timothy Mitchell’s ‘Carbon Democracy:…

By Antipode Editorial Office March 19, 2013

Mazen Labban – visiting professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University, Antipode author (see here and here) and International Advisory Board member, and author of the excellent…

theatlantic.com 1min

The Ghetto Is Public Policy

Ta-Nehisi Coates The Ghetto Is Public Policy 10:45 AM ET Zvika Krieger McMecca: The Strange Alliance of Clerics and Businessmen in Saudi Arabia 10:05 AM ET

blogs.plos.org 1min

Processing Article

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inspiringscience.wordpress.com 3min

Skybugs: ecosystems above and below

By sedeer March 13, 2013

I’ve already written several times about the bacteria in the clouds and what they do up there; now, a new study from the Georgia Institue of Technology in Atlanta has described the communities…

tidalmag.org 14min

Race, Class, and Disaster Gentrification

By Who made this site.

In the days and weeks following Hurricane Sandy the inequalities at the heart of New York City could scarcely be missed. While hundreds of thousands of public housing residents went without…

latimes.com 10min

Autism hidden in plain sight

Dec. 15, 2011

Howard McBroom, shown riding the bus, worked for 26 years as a security guard. It wasn't until he lost that job in 2003 that the Indiana University graduate learned he was autistic. He was 49 years…

chronicle.com 1min

Where Democracy Meets Fear

By Ira Katznelson March 4, 2013

March 4, 2013 Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address, in 1933. Reminding us that "all historians are prisoners of their own experience," one of the most eminent historians of the New…

simplysociology.wordpress.com 4min

Infant embodiment: how we think about and treat babies

By Deborah Lupton March 11, 2013

The future King Louis XIV as an infant with his wet nurse (Photo credit: Wikipedia) My article entitled ‘Infant embodiment and interembodiment: a review of sociocultural perspectives’…

nytimes.com 4min

Justices to Take Up Case on Generic Drug Makers’ Liability

By KATIE THOMAS March 4, 2013

A reaction to the anti-inflammatory drug sulindac rendered Karen Bartlett legally blind. The injuries that Karen Bartlett suffered after taking a mild pain pill are enough to make anyone squeamish.

scientificamerican.com 3min

How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being

By Adam Hadhazy

GUT CHECK: A complex, independent nervous system lines the gastrointestinal tract that has been dubbed the "second brain". Image: ISTOCKPHOTO/ERAXION As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even…

thenewinquiry.com 9min

Just the Facts

Conspiracy theorists and technocrat pundits seem like opposites, but they’re closer than they may appear It was June 5, 2008, and Alex Jones was in Chantilly, Virginia, with a team of…

socialtextjournal.org 3min

Beasts of the Southern Wild - The Romance of Precarity II

By Jayna Brown Feb. 21, 2013

This film should have been a choice text for me; I love post-apocalyptic stories that end badly. But the heaps of critical praise the film has garnered don't even seem to notice it as a dystopia.…

socialtextjournal.org 4min

Beasts of the Southern Wild - The Romance of Precarity I

By Christina Sharpe Feb. 21, 2013

After the opening shot of a dilapidated house, Beasts of the Southern Wild begins mise-en-scène with a tight close-up of the house's interior, the screen filled with small brown crossed legs, a…

phenomena.nationalgeographic.com 7min

The Virus That Learns

By Carl Zimmer Feb. 27, 2013

If you don’t have an immune system, you don’t last long in this parasite-riddled world. Your body receives a steady stream of invaders–viruses, bacteria, and other…

healthland.time.com 1min

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

By Steven Brill March 4, 2013

Because Stephanie and her...

societyandspace.com 26min

An interview on Take Back the Economy

By stuartelden Feb. 14, 2013

February 14, 2013 by stuartelden Katherine Gibson, Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy talk to Society & Space co-editor Jane M. Jacobs about their forthcoming book: Take Back the Economy: An Ethical…

nybooks.com 8min

Blogging the Slow-Motion Revolution: An Interview with China’s Huang…

By Ian Johnson Feb. 9, 2013

Ian Johnson Huang Qi is best known in China as the creator of the country’s first human rights website, Liusi Tianwang, or “June 4 Heavenly Web.” A collection of reports and photos, as well as t

tomdispatch.com 12min

TomDispatch.com

By Michael Klare

[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Don’t miss Bill Moyers’s interview with TD Managing Editor Nick Turse on this week's “Moyers & Company,” which you can watch by clicking…

onearth.org 3min

Paul's Reading List

Why People Keep Misunderstanding the 'Connection' Between Race and IQ

Some of My Best Friends Are Germs

On Audre Lorde's Legacy and the "Self" of Self-Care, Part 2 of 3

The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin’s Timeless…

Detroit and the International War of the Rich on the Poor

Beyond Marriage: Democracy, Equality, and Kinship for a New Century

Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel

Book Review – Mazen Labban on Timothy Mitchell’s ‘Carbon Democracy:…

The Ghetto Is Public Policy

Processing Article

Skybugs: ecosystems above and below

Race, Class, and Disaster Gentrification

Autism hidden in plain sight

Where Democracy Meets Fear

Infant embodiment: how we think about and treat babies

Justices to Take Up Case on Generic Drug Makers’ Liability

How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being

Just the Facts

Beasts of the Southern Wild - The Romance of Precarity II

Beasts of the Southern Wild - The Romance of Precarity I

The Virus That Learns

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

An interview on Take Back the Economy

Blogging the Slow-Motion Revolution: An Interview with China’s Huang…

TomDispatch.com

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Why People Keep Misunderstanding the 'Connection' Between Race and IQ

Some of My Best Friends Are Germs

On Audre Lorde's Legacy and the "Self" of Self-Care, Part 2 of 3

The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin’s Timeless…

Detroit and the International War of the Rich on the Poor

Beyond Marriage: Democracy, Equality, and Kinship for a New Century

Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel

Book Review – Mazen Labban on Timothy Mitchell’s ‘Carbon Democracy:…

The Ghetto Is Public Policy

Processing Article

Skybugs: ecosystems above and below

Race, Class, and Disaster Gentrification

Autism hidden in plain sight

Where Democracy Meets Fear

Infant embodiment: how we think about and treat babies

Justices to Take Up Case on Generic Drug Makers’ Liability

How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being

Just the Facts

Beasts of the Southern Wild - The Romance of Precarity II

Beasts of the Southern Wild - The Romance of Precarity I

The Virus That Learns

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

An interview on Take Back the Economy

Blogging the Slow-Motion Revolution: An Interview with China’s Huang…

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