Unqualified Offerings spots prophecy in The Onion.

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It turns out I really like The Coup, an incredibly talented duo who (like another of my favorite hip-hop acts, Digable Planets) also happen to be hardcore evangelical Marxists. I’m resigned to the fact that lots of artists I like are going to have politics I find distasteful, but seriously, do the best hip-hop groups […]

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My friend Kate points to these photos of “street installations” by Mark Jenkins, bits of double-take inducing situationist art plopped down in various major cities, including D.C. What I dig about these is that they’re kind of like inversions of Duchamp’s Fountain which is the go-to example for every Aesthetics 101 discussion of that perennial […]

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This looks interesting: Sir, No Sir, a film about the anti-war movement within the military in the 60s and 70s, is being screened tonight at Black Cat.

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The Cornerites are having a back and forth (and back again) on British conservative David Cameron’s stance against exempting Catholic adoption agencies from a ban on discriminating against gay parents. I’m on board with Andrew Stuttaford this far: This isn’t, or at any rate shouldn’t be, a “religious freedom” question. On my view, the right […]

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Via To the People comes the story of New Jersey’s Kearny High School, which became a center of controversy when a student taped history teacher David Paszkiewicz using class time to heap scorn on evolution and admonishing students to embrace Jesus or risk hellfire. School administrators were quick to respond… by banning the surreptitious recording […]

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For various reasons, inequality seems to be a hot topic of late, and in particular I seem to be seeing a lot of folk taking up the abstract question of whether it’s inequality per se that we ought to be concerned with, or only whether the absolute level of the badly off is sufficiently high. […]

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You’ve probably already seen this. But it’s awesome, so watch it again.

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Ok, this is a fairly awesome little widget. It’s an iTunes plug-in that checks whether any of the artists in your music collection are scheduled to play shows in your vicinity, creating a personalized music calendar. Thanks, Radley.

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Via Crooked Timber, photographer Steve Pyke has a portrait gallery of some of the most eminent philosophers of the late 20th century, and a sequel containing some more recent shots. They’re fantastic images, and many have short summaries of the subject’s central projects in his or her own words.

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