Sarah Kendzior: The Adjunct Crisis Continues
I have a new article on Al Jazeera English about adjuncts in academia, but maybe you already knew that. Since it came out on Thursday, it has been shared by over 14,000 people on Facebook and remains...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Terrorism and Ethnicity in the American Media
I have a new article for Al Jazeera, The wrong kind of Caucasian, on the long history of the American media blaming an entire ethnicity for the violent acts of an individual: It is easy to criticise...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Unpaid Internships and the Politics of Privilege
At Al Jazeera English, I have a new article about the alleged auction of a UN internship for $22,000, and on unpaid internships in general. An excerpt: UN internships may not be up for auction, but...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: St. Louis and the American Dream
For Al Jazeera English, I have a new article on my adopted city of St. Louis. An excerpt: In St. Louis, you can buy a mansion for $275,000. It has twelve bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a three-bedroom...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the...
The anthropology blog Savage Minds interviewed me last week on my career, the crisis in higher education and the role of anthropology in public life. An excerpt below, on grad students and the job...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: What Happens When the “Screwed Generation” Has Children of...
Most media portrayals of the so-called “millennial” generation – people born roughly between the late 1970s and the late 1990s – portray them as lazy losers living in their parents’ basements. What...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Two Upcoming Talks
This Wednesday I’ll be giving a talk at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University with Noah Tucker, a fellow Central Asia analyst. Our talk is called “Digital Memory...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The moral bankruptcy of the internship economy
Every now and again I use Twitter to make a multipoint argument. Today I talked about unpaid internships and youth unemployment. The tweets have gotten a lot of attention, so I’m reposting them here....
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The Perils of the Prestige Economy
I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education,...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Why Complaining Is a Good Thing
For Al Jazeera English, I took on a subject on which I am indisputably an expert: complaining. Naturally, I came down on the side of the complainers: In an America built on the reinvention of reality,...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: How the Uzbek Government Targets Exiles Abroad
I have a new article for Al Jazeera English about how the government of Uzbekistan punishes exiles abroad by persecuting their relatives at home. Two weeks ago, Hasan Choriyev, the father of Uzbek...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The myth of the “skills gap”
Inspired by this Guardian article on joblessness in Europe, today I tweeted about the myth of the “skills gap” – a catchphrase frequently trotted out to explain away mass unemployment among the young....
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: What Celebrities and Dictators Have in Common
Last week Jennifer Lopez performed at a birthday party for Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the dictator of Turkmenistan. For Foreign Policy, I analyze the anxiety behind the outrage that ensued:...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The murder of Trayvon Martin
I have a new article about the murder of Trayvon Martin: Trayvon Martin is dead and the man who killed him walks free. Americans are afraid there will be riots, like there were after the King verdict...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: McDonald’s Workers Are Worth More
For Al Jazeera English, I have a new article on low-wage workers and the end of upward mobility in America: This lapse in priorities – in which things we buy are thought to be morally superior to...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Students fail MOOCs because MOOCs fail students
For Al Jazeera English, I took on MOOCs, or massive open online courses. (Spoiler! Not a fan: ) The best word to describe MOOCs – at least in terms of their capacity to replace traditional education –...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The Legacy of Edward Snowden
For Al Jazeera English, I wrote about Snowden and political paranoia: On June 23, 2013, Edward Snowden left China, a repressive state with a vast surveillance system, to fly to Russia, a repressive...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The myth of “opting out”
Earlier today I wrote a popular series of tweets on the cost of motherhood in America, inspired by the recent New York Times article on moms who “opted out”. You can follow me on twitter at...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: More on the ‘opting out’ myth
As you may have seen, I expanded on the ideas I posted here on the economics of motherhood in an article for Al Jazeera: Mothers are not ‘opting out’ – they are out of options. An excerpt: The New...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Leaks, law and justice
My latest for Al Jazeera English is on the Chelsea Manning verdict: In 2011, President Obama gave a statement to the press when questioned by a Manning sympathiser. “We are a nation of laws,” he said....
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