Field Notes
Turkish Layover:
An Accidental Tourist During the Attempted Coup
By Dane A. Wisher
Someone’s made a mint selling Turkish flags. Taksim Square teems with people waving the red banners emblazoned with the white crescent and star.
Britain’s Brexit Limbo
By Tony NorfieldBritain’s divorce from the European Union will be a tortuous affair. The British establishment losers in the June 23 Brexit referendum were shocked by the vote to leave, as were the financial markets: Sterling’s value slumped some ten percent on the foreign exchange markets and the U.K.’s credit rating was cut.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Class
By Adam Theron-Lee RenschIn the early 2000s, I spent many nights at the now defunct Emma St Bar & Grill, a truck stop diner located just off I-75 in Findlay, Ohio. Open twenty-four hours, it offered cheap, greasy food and bottomless cups of coffee.
Understanding the Labyrinth:
Noam Chomsky’s Science and Politics
By Bruce Nevin
On July 25 the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival screened Requiem for the American Dream, a documentary film built around an interview with Noam Chomsky, with the great man himself present for a Q&A afterward.
