HARD CRACKERS

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. –Winston Churchill, November 1942 Say what you want of the old imperious warhorse Winston Churchill, he sure could coin a phrase. The above-cited quote is one worth keeping in your back […]

In 1976, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Marie Miéville released a strange film called Here and Elsewhere. The film is in fact a series of unfinished shots stitched together from an earlier film that was never finished, Till Final Victory, alongside political critique from the filmmakers. In 1970, Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group had traveled […]

Adam shivered slightly against the cool predawn morning air as he glanced over towards the tent perched askew high on the embankment between the overpass and Admiral. Detecting neither lights nor movement, he turned into the QuikTrip parking lot and inhaled deeply as he turned off the car. Having played this part of the rescue […]

For the fall 2023 semester, I was hired as an adjunct lecturer to teach Dance 540, the history/theory seminar for graduate students in the dance department at Smith College. On Wednesday November 1, 2023, I was summoned to meet with the Associate Provost and the Director of HR Consulting. They promptly fired me in a […]

“For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.” —Walter Benjamin We witnessed recently the most heroic collective act that we can expect to see in our lifetimes, but it has not been much remarked upon. Perhaps this is because we in the Western left have become so accustomed […]

As events in Gaza rapidly unfold, Hard Crackers spoke with Noor Salah, a Palestinian-American activist living in the United States.  Hard Crackers: Tell us about yourself. Noor Salah: I’m Palestinian-American, first generation born in the United States. I come from a family of activists on both sides, especially my maternal side. My father was particularly […]