by Heather Brandon | Sep 20, 2007 | Urban Compass
The Springfield Finance Control Board is planning to be in town for an unprecedentedly large “community forum” later this week. The event, slated for Thursday, September 20 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, will take place in the theater at Springfield Technical...
by John Drabinski | Sep 20, 2007 | The Public Humanist
There is this thing about lefty theory and activism that has always bothered me: implicit, even explicit, contempt for the very people with whom those theorists and activists consider themselves in solidarity. I would say the same, if not more, about academics....
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 20, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Wrestling was, more than anything, about control. We were trying to wrest control of ourselves from the world, from school, from our parents, even from each other. And we were doing this by learning to control other people, to gain mastery of them, to make their limbs...
by Alan Bisbort | Sep 20, 2007 | News
After the Sept. 11 anniversary last week, I decided that enough time must have passed for someone to have written a reliable account of what led to the terrorist attacks six years ago. I didn't want a partisan overview of Middle East history, or an anti-Muslim (or...
by David Weigel | Sep 20, 2007 | News
No one noticed the wince. If they did, no one wanted to talk about it, because Fred Thompson's campaign staff (which still exists, the fresh exodus of three top staffers aside) had set up his presidential launch on The Tonight Show so deftly. This was history, and...