hi-speed tourist

“Personally I’ve never met any intellectuals…On the other hand, I’ve met a lot of people who talk about ‘the intellectual.’...I’ve got some idea of what such an animal could be. ...He’s guilty about pretty well everything: about speaking out and about keeping silent, about doing nothing and about getting involved in everything…In short, the intellectual is raw material for a verdict, a sentence, a condemnation, an exclusion...” - Michel Foucault

18 June 2016

a short reflection on my grandpa and the state of things

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It has been just over one month since I lost my grandfather, Sidney Greenwald, whom we, the grandkids, called "Bakka". I link to h...
18 September 2015

if you need to defend ann coulter to make your point, maybe you should rethink your point.

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I am already annoyed that I have to write this... For those of you who missed the latest in our country's slow descent into idiocracy,...
20 June 2015

cause and effect

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After six days in Michigan (much of which was filtered through a strange, jet-lag- and adrenaline-induced haze), I am now halfway through a ...
03 June 2015

it's good to talk to people

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Tomorrow, I am leaving Timor-Leste. In addition to the elite interviews I have been conducting in Dili, I also piloted a small door-to-door...
28 April 2015

riots and the breakdown of order

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Because no one else is saying anything on the internet about the riots in Baltimore (ha), I thought I would fill the void for you. Coat...
24 April 2015

on being "in the field" (and that pesky task of rationalizing one's existence)

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I have been spending the past six weeks 9,499 miles away from Ann Arbor in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste (East Timor). I have another six...
07 February 2015

the crime of caring

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I should precede this post with a disclaimer: I am an American woman, I am a social scientist (in training), and I want to help people in ot...
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