Alex Sayf Cummings's Blog, page 14
November 1, 2020
Race-ing the NFL: How Anti-Black Standards Are Built into the 2015 Concussion Settlement
Overshadowed by August’s unprecedented wildcat strikes in professional sports, an equally significant labor action went…
October 29, 2020
What Tropics of Meta Knows About Politics
Our people are troubled, but they wrote a lot of good shit.
October 28, 2020
John Le Carré, Patron Saint Of Disillusioned Academics
Le Carré elevated quit lit into something sublime and deserving of literary awards, unlike my overwrought internet Weltschmertz.
October 18, 2020
The Syrian Jewish Migration of the 1990s: A Modern Exodus
Henry Harary tells the story of the Jews who took their shot at escaping Syria in the 1990s and built new lives in America.
October 9, 2020
Cuban Spies and Cold War Syndromes: A Review of ‘Wasp Network’
Any film that so handedly breaks from the mainstream script about Cuba deserves our praise—and our scrutiny.
September 30, 2020
COVID Speakeasy: Hunting for Live Music in the Pacific Palisades
Rob Baker on the search for live music in a California starved of it.
September 28, 2020
Ballin’ and Fightin’ Back: Sport and Possibilities for Social Change
The Kenosha police’s seven bullets in the back of Jacob Blake were yet another very…
September 27, 2020
So Bright and Clear and Pale in the Afternoon
An eviction, a SCOTUS vacancy, and a death in the family. How do we keep our feet on the ground to do what has to be done?
September 25, 2020
What I Learned by Following the 1918-19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in (Almost) Real Time
Once the COVID crisis is over, it may take us quite some time to process and psychologically recover from this tragedy.
September 12, 2020
Rules for White Mentors
A recent graduate and a professor reflect on teachers' responsibility to grapple with whiteness and the path traveled by first-generation students of color.
