Barbara Sostaita

Dec 6, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Barbara Sostaita |Lucia Hulsether

CAPITALIST HUMANITARIANISM. By . Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. ix-248. Paper, $26.95. Reading Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism as I continue to watch the siege on Gaza and the genocidal ambitions of Israel unfold—a project that has been seventy-five years in the making—I cannot escape the overwhelming and unsettling grief that gives shape to this book's pages.

Sep 12, 2024 | teenvogue.com | Barbara Sostaita

The figure of the “migrant criminal” haunted the 2024 presidential debate stage between Vice President Harris and Donald Trump. From the very first question posed by ABC News moderator David Muir regarding the state of the economy, Trump painted a picture of a nation under attack. “Millions of people [are] pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums,” he insisted in the opening minutes of Tuesday's debate.