Workers + Students Strike Fight #crisis

Anyone watch the 1491 TV series yet? I loved Charles Mann’s book and am wondering if the TV version might be useful for teaching…

Solidarity Statement from Professors and Scholars in Support of the Wet’suwet’en people

Beijing’s Olympics Paved the Way for Xinjiang’s Camps

I Am Jeff Bezos: Man Of Principle, Champion of the Exploited

On Covering Webcams “if you do have malware on your Mac, the webcam is likely the least of your problems”

China Airlines Pilots Strike Over Lunar New Year, Criticizing Overwork

“Before you, dear reader, get queasy, suspecting, not incorrectly, that a boring and cruel exercise in analytic philosophy is about to unfold…“

New Jersey is one of the few places you can hear these languages — and they’re in danger

How a Chinese reality show made hip hop mainstream in Taiwan

When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.)

Ottoman table from 1560

Ottoman table from 1560

Video games exhibition at the Victoria and Albert

Video games exhibition at the Victoria and Albert

Very concerned about Spotify buying up Gimlet Media. I think it is the beginning of the end for podcasts. In the future you will have to subscribe to iTunes, Spotify, HBO, Hulu, Amazon, etc. for their own proprietary podcast content.

A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty — Jason Hickel

“schools have brainwashed kids with lessons about “fairness.”“

Bill finally recognizes Ainu as indigenous people of Japan

The Chinese were white – until white men called them yellow

Xi’s China Is Steamrolling Its Own History

For those of you in or near NY: BAM - Race, Sex & Cinema: The World of Marlon Riggs

Caught in a crossfire: Chinese students abroad and the battle for their hearts

LGBT history to be taught in New Jersey schools

Immigrant rights attorneys and journalists denied entry into Mexico