Books/Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Politics/PopMatters Picks Slain Journalist’s Open Letter Tackles Racism, Islamophobia, and Free Speech By Rhea Rollmann / 17 May 2016 For all its infamy, few outside of France really understand what Charlie Hebdo is all about. A manifesto posthumously published by its editor, offers insights.
Books/Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Politics How Should We Respond to Terrorism? By Rhea Rollmann / 15 September 2015 After the Paris Attacks is a collection of research that moves away from the US to look at Canadian and European debates over terrorism.
Comics/Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Politics Before Charlie Hebdo: The Cartoon Wars By Iain Ellis / 17 June 2015 Why is it that cartoons, more than any other expressive form, have incited the wrath of religious backlash?
Comics/Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Media/Politics/PopMatters Picks Weapons Drawn! Perspectives on Charlie Hebdo By Iain Ellis / 26 February 2015 Questioning cartoons, satire, and the role of the media after the Charlie Hebdo assassinations.
Comics/Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Politics/PopMatters Picks Much Ado About Art, Satire and Terrorism By Rhea Rollmann / 16 February 2015 As the debate rages over Charlie Hebdo’s controversial cartoons, Art Spiegelman offers sage advice on cartoons and free speech.