لتارن و ريم —The ethical dilemma raised by an Israeli court's decision to sentence a Palestinian man eighteen months in prison for "rape by deception" after he lied to a Jewish woman about his race and had consensual sex with her is not one over rights or equality, but over the legitimacy of race as [...]

"They may call it the 'Land of the Pure,' but Pakistan turns out to be anything but," says Fox News correspondent Kelli Morgan in her article on Pakistan, the "world's leader," she claims, "in online searches for pornographic material." Now, this idea is far from new: such discourse is but an accent to the common tale [...]

"Bush speaks of 'war', but he is in fact incapable of identifying the enemy against whom he declares that he has declared war." — Jacques Derrida, September 2001 I. With the torturing of the terrorist, inducing confession works a double duty: on one hand, introducing terror to the terrorist serves as a subtle, unspoken confession [...]

In what is perhaps the most famous scene of Buñuel's Viridiana (1961), Handel's Messiah gives rhythm to a bestial orgy: a burglary turned bourgeois banquet held by a motley group of beggars. Though the village paupers broke in and commandeered the estate of their benefactor ex-novitiate Viridiana with the intention of just "looking around," what [...]

Connaissez-vous quelque chose de plus outrageusement fécal que l'histoire de dieu et de son être: Satan [...]? Do you know anything more insultingly fecal than the history of god and of his being: Satan? - Antonin Artaud, Théâtre de la cruauté Whether he is ha-Sataan (הַשָׂטָן) the accuser, or el-Shaytan (الشيطان) the adversary, Satan is [...]