I renounced and returned my PhD to NYU last June for its behavior towards a graduation speaker who mentioned Palestine at the end of their speech. What’s the use having a degree from an institution that clearly opposes free thought?

This is a great essay.

I want to make clear that I count myself among the majority of essayists who have trouble writing something genuinely readable at 3000 or 5000 words! I just realized that this was very poorly worded! QED.

This this this. There are very few essayists who can write something genuinely readable at 3000 or 5000 words (I count myself among them). Fiction is different, obviously. Learning to write a banging 1000-1500 piece changed my writing forever.

I've launched a publication with @palfest.bsky.social called "The Key." I am so excited to share this first issue with you: www.thekeymagazine.com

Oh hey, it’s me! But more importantly it’s the Whitney Biennial.

Why is he dressed like Mark Zuckerberg and not Zohran Mamdani, I wonder?

Maybe it’s easier to make a list of the countries we AREN’T at war with at the moment?

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n... Bypass here. archive.ph/4NboB

Wait you’re telling me his giant SS tattoo wasn’t just innocent fun?!?!!

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

I was speaking today with an artist who used to be one of Arafat’s bodyguards. The US/Israel had just announced they had killed the ayatollah. He explained, in great detail, what surveillance capability Israel has and what Iran has, and told me there’s very little chance the news is true.

BREAKING NEWS: Diya Vij, the first person of South Asian origin to hold the position, has been named New York City’s new commissioner of arts and culture. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/a...

Total, global war. Against people at home, against people abroad, against kids in a school. The U.S. and Israel are the true axis of evil.

Indians just call it keema pao 😉 (and add spices).

The problem of course is the current proposal does not accept general forms of ID, and besides many people who have a right to vote never get on an airplane. Or buy beer.

5 women authors I've read at least 5 books by: Jane Austen Agatha Christie Margaret Atwood Jhumpa Lahiri Anita Desai

This image needs to be taught in every single curatorial/museum studies program ever. Wowwww.

He should step aside because he’s been president of that college for FIFTY YEARS which is way too long, just objectively. He should be fired and drummed out of town because of his dealings with this monster Epstein.

I am deep in an editorial project and this made me laugh so hard.

@paulisci.bsky.social I think we have a 2026 contender. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.

Suddenly all of these old perverts will start doing what college profs have been doing forever when faced with sexual harassment charges—retiring so they don’t have to face consequences. Time-honored way to avoid scrutiny and then whine about how you were unfairly treated.

My latest for @hyperallergic.com: a rant about bad wall labels and a gentle reminder about how to write a good one. Alternate title: old art critic shakes fist at clouds. hyperallergic.com/the-sticky-p...

My latest for the New York Times: a profile of the Roma artist Ceija Stojka, who made work that spoke to the history of the Roma genocide at the hands of the Nazis and the rising fascism in Europe in the 90s and 2000s. Show at the Drawing Center opens Friday. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/a...

The thing is, between now and midterms, all the chickens from Trump’s first year of anti-constitutional actions are going to come home to roost. Not only will the admin (continue to) be losing lawsuits, but so will all the people/orgs who were carrying his water.

In college, my extremely toxic situationship once told me I was the Katherine to his Heathcliff, so I read the book. And when I was done I threw it at his head. Lucky it was a Penguin paperback rather than hardcover, and I had bad aim.

Correcting for food allergies (some of these will make me sick, but if they didn’t I would def eat them) my score is 1. Black licorice is TERRIBLE.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

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Brb I’ll be thinking about this for the rest of the day.

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

I mean, between the independent media and the badass resisting, Minneapolis is sounding pretty utopian to me.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

A small plug today to consider joining the Freelance Solidarity Project. We're all in this media shitscape together, and it's going to take organizing to rescue its remains from the dumpster fire. freelancesolidarity.org

Abide by the same rules as local police, who have been killing Black people with impunity since forever. No thanks, Chuck. This is a TERRIBLE position.

Holy shit.

This is the talking point.

Canadian in the U.S. here. Health care is in trouble in Canada not because of a fundamental flaw in the system but because governments (federal and provincial) have been defunding it so corporations can get tax breaks. Even with that, it’s a triage system—urgent issues get treated fast.

Whether you want it or not. As I’ve been saying for a while now, te GOP doesn’t understand the concept of consent. On any level, in any context.

Simply incredible

The degree to which Americans (mostly Republicans, but not exclusively) hate children is mind-blowing. Let’s take these glorious, perfect human beings full of the potential to make the world better and who never asked to be here in the first place and make their lives terrifying and hard.

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For 4Columns, I wrote about the Wilfredo Lam show at MoMA. He was the first Cuban artist to enter the collection, but his masterpiece, The Jungle, hung near the coatcheck for years. It’s a great show about an artist who saw his practice as an act of decolonization. 4columns.org/d-souza-arun...

Marry early and often, maybe. No long term relationship is actually possible with someone with no actual life like these tech bros.

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[Stares in “Screams Without Words”]