Some people have no imagination, but — like John Lennon said — imagination is the only “nation” worth pledging allegiance to….

Yay for the work of James Tillman. Like… A Terrible Love of War.

The curtain rises?

It’s comfy to not have deadlines.

I wish, at the very least, that everyone in academia would read Howard Zinn On History.

What happens in Africa doesn’t stay in Africa.

Let’s resist the characteristically American trick of passing off fundamental criticism by pointing to a few reforms.