On HU

Featured Archive Post: Robert Jones, Jr. on why he gave up reading superhero comics.

Robert Stanley Martin on on-sale dates for comics in late 1943—Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, and Crockett Johnson.

Ken Derry on L. Frank Baum and genocide (or the lack therof) in Oz.

Chris Gavaler on H.G. Wells in thigh boots.

Donovan Grant on Superman fighting for Ferguson, and why it doesn’t work.

Nix 66 with thoughts on Bree Newsome and the nonexistence of the law.

Jimmy Johnson on how cop shows believe in black criminality even when they present white supremacists as villains.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about the doc Mama Sherpas and how midwives can lower national Cesarean rates.

At the Awl I wrote about Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home and how dystopia requires narrative, and vice versa.

At the New Republic I wrote about

—how Rihanna is a depoliticized Pam Grier.

—Self/Less and the dream of a rich guy everyman who will save us all.

At Playboy

—I reviewed Chauntelle Tibbs’ Exposed and discussed sociology and porn.

—I wrote about Miley, Captain America, Rihanna and how everybody is empowered by kicking someone else.

At Splice Today I wrote about the realness of country radio, and how poptimism will eat itself.

At the Reader I did a little review of Atlanta rapper Father
 
Other Links

Athletes allege racism at U of I, Urbana.

Jonathan Bernstein on how Obama’s been a crappy manager of the executive.

This is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ favorite review of his forthcoming book.

Indian studies scholar Andrea Smith responds to accusations that she has misrepresented her identity.

The Dissolve (where I wrote for a bit) has sadly gone out of business.