It is pouring rain on an unusually empty New York City street. Holly Golightly and Paul Varjack are pouting in a taxi, reeling over their reluctant agreement to go their separate ways. “People don’t belong to people,” Holly cries in an extreme close-up of her agony. “I’m not going to let anybody put me in a cage.” In this culminating final scene from Blake Edwards’ Breakfast at … [Read more...] about Trouble at Tiffany’s: A Look into the Female Melodrama
Archives for October 2018
Beyond Food Deserts: Inequality, Health, and Limited Vocabulary
Food deserts are an important concept. The formal definition of a food desert is an area where residents have to travel over a mile to access a grocery store. Yet while it is powerful to name this phenomenon, this name hides deeper inequalities, inequalities which require solutions more complex than simply building a grocery store front. It is not difficult to guess which … [Read more...] about Beyond Food Deserts: Inequality, Health, and Limited Vocabulary
A Child’s Catalyst for Change
Born out of an unexpected series of events, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was about to close its doors when Polish delegate Ludwik Rajchman spoke up on behalf of the millions that were continuing to suffer following the end of the Second World War. After the war, there was a great need to provide for the world’s most vulnerable population: … [Read more...] about A Child’s Catalyst for Change
The Music Industrialist: Trump Signs MMA
Last Thursday, President Trump signed the Music Modernization Act into law, marking the end of a nearly year-long struggle in which songwriters and musicians rights groups repeatedly clashed with PROs and streaming services over the Act’s details. The Music Modernization Act is notable for its unanimous bipartisan support, and for many (including this writer), its signing will … [Read more...] about The Music Industrialist: Trump Signs MMA
Turning Pollution into Profit: Why Carbon Markets Are A Bad Idea
Carbon dioxide emissions continue unabated even two decades after the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol. Augmented by both pollution of poverty and pollution of affluence, humankind’s carbon footprint is a direct manifestation of its highly anthropocentric relationship with the environment. Global climate change governance, too, is dominated by an ecological modernization … [Read more...] about Turning Pollution into Profit: Why Carbon Markets Are A Bad Idea