Trump’s Capricious Use of Power to Denigrate and Even Endanger His Critics Must End
Dec 11, 2016 The president-elect’s tendency to go after people who criticize him by sending false and provocative statements to his 17 million Twitter followers not only imperils these individuals. It also poses a clear and present danger to our democracy.
Better Living Through Criticism
Nov 27, 2016 A new book by A.O. Scott, senior film critic for The New York Times and probably the country's most influential film critic, is a reflection on the nature of art criticism itself.
Employers Can’t Require You to Be Happy, Uncle Sam Says
May 13, 2016 In a victory for free speech, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that employees of T-Mobile do not have to maintain what the company called a “positive work environment” at all times.
Critics
Dec 30, 2014
Remembering Hiroshima in an Age of Neoliberal Barbarism
Sep 12, 2014 Once an emancipatory project predicated on the right to study and engage the past critically, history under the reign of neoliberalism has receded into a depoliticizing culture of consumerism, a wholesale attack on science, the glorification of military ideals, an embrace of the punishing state, and a nostalgic invocation of the greatest generation.
Be Very Thoughtful With Your Criticism
Jan 6, 2014 During performance reviews and other such discussions, focusing on what people may have done wrong makes them defensive and blinkers the mind, making it harder for them to change, psychologists say. Instead, conversations about what people would like to achieve are more likely to result in improvements.
Back to Blunt the Cutting Edge
Jul 19, 2013 John Summers, editor-in-chief of the critical, satirical magazine The Baffler, appeared on Boston's WGBH News to introduce his journal to television audiences, saying that when people ask what the publication is about, he "remind[s] them that this sort of thing existed for a long time in the American cultural scene."
Our Words Are Our Weapons
Oct 30, 2012 We often speak as though the source of so many of our problems is complex and even mysterious. I'm not sure it is. You can blame it all on greed: the refusal to do anything about climate change, the attempts by the .01% to destroy our democracy, the constant robbing of the poor, the resultant starving children, the war against most of what is beautiful on this Earth.
WHO Accused of Overstating Swine Flu Threat
Jun 4, 2010 Two reports released Friday are critical of the World Health Organization's handling of the H1N1 flu pandemic -- which was dubbed "exaggeration on stilts" -- as well as the fact that some WHO scientists had previously been on the payroll of big drug companies.
Former Chavez Amigo Jailed
May 9, 2010 A onetime comrade, and current critic, of Venezuelan jefe Hugo Chavez has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of abuse of power, misappropriation of funds and violation of the military code while an officer in the army.
