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This Is Not a Pipe: The Treacheries of Indigenous Housing
Paul Pholeros and Tess Lea, in Volume 22, Number 1
There was an important moment in surrealist art when the Belgian painter René Magritte pointed out the simple truth that his painting of a smoker’s pipe was not a pipe.Country First? Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) and the Writing of Essentials of Hindutva
In March 1922 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the leader of the first Indian nonviolent noncooperation movement against British rule, did something that stunned his fellow nationalists.Coming Home: Religion, Mass Violence, and the Exiled and Secret Selves of a Citizen-Killer
The violence that erupted when British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan killed at least a million people. Yet there were no criminal inquiries, arrests, court cases, or convictions associated with the killings, rapes, mutilations, arson,…project:rendition
project:rendition used the enactment of “rendering” to examine military policies hidden from public view. The term extraordinary rendition refers to the clandestine kidnapping and extradition of suspected terrorists to countries where they can be int…The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial
In its attempt to recruit patients with late-stage and metastatic renal cancer for a new trial of an experimental cancer treatment, Oxford Biomedica took the standard form of asking and answering an array of imagined patient questions in its patient…
