LU Chronicles
There is a peculiar Indianism , and, if one looks broadly enough, a globalism , to the way we manage the subject of sex: not by absence so much as by theatrical abstention. Sex is performed, packaged, policed, advertised, litigated, and monetized; but it is not, with any seriousness, discussed […]
They tell you, politely, that the world is what it is: messy, dangerous, and therefore to be managed by people who have seen the maps and read the books. Questioning the necessity of weapons that can erase cities, nuclear weapons, the all-consuming instruments of modern statecraft, will earn you a […]
In the spring of 1983, Andrea Dworkin released a book that unsettled even her staunchest admirers. Right-Wing Women wasn’t a call to arms but an x-ray, a forensic, unflinching study of a kind of political allegiance that confounds both liberals and radicals: the woman who kisses the hand that chains […]