Written at a time when everyone knows what it means to construct a public image, Miriam Pawel’s Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement revisits the story of an iconic movement with an even more iconic leader....
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“Brain drain” was once good for America. The great minds — Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann — that fled fascism during the 1930s reaffirmed the idea of the U.S. as a land of opportunity, and a haven for scientific progress and intellectual advancement. But today, a...
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“Who wants to see that?” was a question many pioneers of the feminist porn movement heard when they were starting out. Now, “porn for women” is coming into its own, with the volume, mainstream attention, and distribution channels to support it. To help you...
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I do this so you can wrap your palms around the leathers of my spine long after I am gone. I do this so that I can live on and on in the silent whispers that warm your mind’s waking hours like the early...
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Buoyant with Ruinart’s dry bubbles, good company on the Dunhill patio, and smiling because I could answer “Yes” to Lord Saatchi’s three questions (Are you working toward something you believe in? Is it going well? Do at least you think it’s important?), I pressed...
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