University of Texas at Austin
Associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin
PROFILE
Eric McDaniel
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FROM Eric McDaniel
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Ferguson and the Civil Rights Generation Divide Religious and civic leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been telling protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, “Don’t riot…vote.” But that message doesn’t seem to be going over well with young, frustrated protesters.
Recommended
Film Reviews
Glass It’s a sort of a climax to a kind of a trilogy that began at the turn of the century with “Unbreakable” and includes “Split,” which was released in 2016.
Bookworm
Deborah Eisenberg: Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories Again Deborah Eisenberg demonstrates herself as a masterful and electric writer, in her new collection of seven stories, Your Duck Is My Duck.
The Business
Nadine Labaki on her Oscar-shortlisted film ‘Capernaum’ Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki cast street children as the stars of ‘Capernaum,’ her gritty tale of 12-year-old Zain, who runs away from home and ultimately sues his parents for condemning him to a life of poverty and desperation.