Sam Feldman
Articles by Sam Feldman:
Westward
in Issue 60 | See America (Jan 2016)like drunk Cubs fans and Catholics - get to the bottom of it, Scooby-Doo-style - kind of like Teach for America but for sausages - Paul and I couchsurfed with a gluten-free girl in Westport - none of the teens in Taco Shop wanted to run away with us - we pulled off I-80 into Buford, Wyoming, population 1
Explosive Liability: The Legal Politics of Dynamite in Industrial-Age America
in Issue 35 | Dynamite (Dec 2013)a species of civil wrongs - radical departures from the older laws - absolute right to be undisturbed - it turns out you haven’t been harmed after all - damnum absque injuria - both abnormally dangerous and absolutely necessary - destruction caused by an exploding steam boiler - « They are demanded by the manifold wants of mankind » - Tree fragments flew everywhere - Of all the ancient English legal concepts to perpetuate - their marvelous machines
What Does It Mean to Be Illegal?: The Jurisprudence of Obamacare
in Issue 24 | Compulsion (Jan 2013)a very expensive parking spot - without a prohibition, a punishment is just a consequence - the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - a government of enumerated powers - on the wrong side of the law - monarchistic legal theory - the PPACA’s use of « shall » - the so-called duck test
Remix This Article
in Issue 21 | Raw Materials (Oct 2012)« I’m paying for this microphone » - the informal industry of internet content-mixers - a former Canadian Idol runner-up - the North Korean government’s « parody video » - an hour and a half of intense unscripted audiovisual raw material - the primary currency of both entertainment and politics
The Great Fear, or, The Green Zone
in Issue 12 | Home and Pain (Jan 2012)formative experiences - a land of buses and bakers - the prewar phantasmagoria - Old World trolls - the domestic Green Zone - not the same Americans we used to be
Whose Side Are They On?
in Issue 10 | Occupations (Nov 2011)two American ideals of free speech - affinity groups and movementlets - a net neutrality of the public domain - « the legitimacy of the government does not matter » - the pace of progress - that the content of a festival could be its presentation
Love in the Time of Communism: A Case Study in Revolutionary Overreach
in Issue 1 | Valentine’s Day (Feb 2011)the limits of the palace - the calendrier républicain - « will the family continue to exist under communism? » - natalism - solemn ceremonies - how she could have expected