Abject poverty and perpetual debt
Long lines of people stretched around city blocks in front of ATM machines, waiting hours to withdraw the equivalent of US $3—the maximum allowed by law.
A robust role in the slaughter
America’s best and brightest will continue to explore innovative ways for human rights to serve a thoroughly militarized foreign policy
The terrorism of politesse maintains an imperceptible distance
What are you in the art world? The answer, and the art world, matter less each time the question is asked.
Not only to expand but to reorganize the world in its own image
It is unlikely that anyone has ever confused a page of Thomas Friedman’s with one of Immanuel Kant’s, but between them it is possible to triangulate a prevailing sensibility of the past two decades.
The gods of profit and production
Today, approximately a billion people — close to one-sixth of humanity — suffer from continual and severe hunger.
A confusion between peoples and values
Multiculturalists claim that the presence in a society of a diversity of peoples limits the possibility of common values. Clash of civilisations warriors insist that such values are impossible within an ethnically diverse society. Neither is right.
It seems like something I’ve already seen
I’d like to see the porno staged in one of those George W. Bush, No-Child-Left-Behind inspired “charter” elementary schools.
No cannonball response because the dead float by
Face up their eyes sometimes open and filling with miniature lakes, rivers down their temples, the children howling and their teeth useless fangs
To regard humanity in such a degraded fashion
Society is fast becoming an asylum, a place without privacy, because private space away from scrutiny is where abuses occur. Here we have the final attack on the self.
Without a warless day
War is increasingly a state of being, not a process with a beginning, an end, and an actual geography.
