16: Opening Issues

Opening Issues

Ron Alcalay
We hope you'll find openings for your own ideas, and perhaps an inclination to respond in a letter or online, so that we may print your response in the issue to come.

Antidisestablishmentarianism or, Entering McLuhan from the Rear

Jonathan Sterne
Whatever the truth of the matter, it is axiomatic that the more educated one becomes, the more left one becomes.

Bisexuality And How To Use It: Toward a Coalitional Identity Politics

Annalee Newitz, Jillian Sandell
Bisexuality rarely gets the same kind of validation that is a necessary part of forming a healthy identity.

Marketing Masculinity in Jean-Claude Van Damme's Universal Soldier

Jeff Akeley
Invoking defense of the family as the primary motivation for the activities of a standing army operates on several cultural levels.

Making Distinctions: The Politics of the Microbrewery Revolution

Charlie Bertsch
In the late 1970s the Carter Administration repealed federal regulations dating back to Prohibition that had made the homebrewing of beer illegal.

Voices from the Collective

The Bad Subjects Collective
Letters from readers about past articles.