Alex Sayf Cummings's Blog, page 21
March 25, 2020
The Creativity Divide: Exploring the Relationship between Creativity and Privilege
Schools are supposed to prize creativity, but Sharon Murchie argues that standardization and poverty stand in the way of freeing all students to be creative.
March 23, 2020
The ICC's Authorization to Investigate Crimes in Afghanistan Is a Step Forward for International Justice
On March 5th, 2020, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) authorized Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate into alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Afghanistan.
March 22, 2020
Coronavirus, Racism, and the Health of Our Communities
The ugly spectre of anti-Asian racism, a mainstay of American history, is back in an even more intense and vicious form in the age of Corona.
March 21, 2020
Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic in Real Time
In our new series, historian Ethan J. Kytle follows the 1918-19 flu epidemic in Fresno, CA, as it was chronicled in local newspapers and other primary sources.
March 20, 2020
Shelter in Place: Reading Bachelard During the Quarantine
Gaston Bachelard's 1958 classic The Poetics of Space offers a fresh way of thinking about our increasingly cloistered existences.
The University of California Does Not Exist: Conflict, Cancellation, and New Horizons for (Collective) Digital Workplace Disruption
A wave of wildcat strikes continues to spread across University of California campuses. They began…
March 19, 2020
Hospice of the Creative Class
The coronavirus crisis shows that an economy that only rewards and protects the most privileged workers is vulnerable to collapse.
March 18, 2020
Adventures in the Aftermath of “Adventures in Publishing Outside the Gates”
The white publishing industry locks arms to form a united front against writers and critics of color -- proving the critics' point, again and again.
March 16, 2020
Warren Endorses Sanders
The endorsement is a long-awaited vindication for the Democratic Party's left flank.
March 15, 2020
“Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothin’ Left to Lose”: Janis Joplin, the Mistaken Icon of the Counterculture
The counterculture dictum to “turn on, tune in, drop out” did not quite capture Janis’s philosophy to “get it while you can.”
