Christmas and Capitalism: A Call to Give Mindfully
Have you ever wondered why, exactly, we give gifts at this time of year? Regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas or not, nearly all religions and cultures celebrate a winter […]
Author Archives: Emma Leigh
The Irreverent Trauma of Being Just a Human: Event Review of Salman Rushdie at Rutgers University
Last week, world-famous author Salman Rushdie appeared at Rutgers University as part of the English Department’s new Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. Hundreds of eager students, faculty, staff, and community […]
What Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction Has to Say About Storytelling & Humanism: Book Review of “MaddAddam”
The final installment of Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction trilogy finally arrived this year, thus concluding her series which functions as a hypothetical answer to what may happen if we don’t […]
Forty Days of Dating: An Experiment in Performing Intimacy
Once upon a time there lived two young, hip, successful New Yorkers. Their names were Jessica and Timothy. Jessica and Timothy were each tired of the dating scene – it […]
Tendentious Art and Political Games: The Olympics of Sochi 2014 & Berlin 1936
Fewer than six months from now, the 2014 Winter Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in Sochi, Russia. Russia, already under criticism for the rigid censorship being imposed by […]
David Cameron’s Crusade Against Porn: The REAL News Story out of England This Week
I’m sure none of you missed the important news story coming out of England earlier this week. No, not the one where British sweetheart Kate Middleton delivered a royal baby. […]
Documentary Film Review: Kumaré
“I am not who you think that I am,” says Kumaré, an Indian guru with a long beard and long hair, wearing a white robe and strings of red beads. […]
Film Review: Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, the new HBO documentary that aims to tell the personal story of the three women who were jailed for their provocative political performance in a […]
On Going Vegan: Never (Not) Depriving Myself
Following up from my review from a couple weeks ago of the debate “Should Animals Be Off the Menu”, I’m sharing this from my own blog, I Am What I […]
Debate Review: “Animals Off the Menu?”
My diet has gone through many incarnations throughout my life, influenced in no small part by where I lived: from Boulder, CO where wheat grass shots were plentiful, to the UK, where […]
Applied Sentience 