Dear Tom: Missions Possible and Impossible

By Jack Halberstam Your mission, Tom Cruise, should you choose to accept it, is to self-destruct within 5 seconds of reading this message. Oh, you did that already, several times, and in public, and on Oprah and in documentaries about the Fascist Church of Scientology. Still, please do it again and mean it this time. […]

Henry and Grover, Drowning in a Bathtub

By Tavia Nyong’o “I’m not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” — Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform “My thoughts are murder to the state.” — Henry David Thoreau, 19th century American writer, conservationist, and […]