The Context of Radical Islam

May 13, 2013 | Rohit Islamic radicalism is one of those issues that the American media always completely fails to properly analyze.  Recall back to the aftermath of 9/11 - the airwaves were cluttered with talk about "why do they hate us?" and the "clash of civilizations" and other polarizing, binary rhetoric. I actually Read More

Reflecting on Robert Reich, Part III: Class Struggle

March 30, 2013 | Rohit This is Part III of a three-part reflection on an interview with Robert Reich.  You can read the full transcript here, and you can pick up a free copy of Caliber to read the feature article on the interview.      This part contains a discussion of the general politics and social change - specifically, Read More

Reflecting on Robert Reich, Part II: Corrupt Regents and Disruptive Protest

March 10, 2013 | Rohit This is Part II of a three-part reflection on an interview with Robert Reich.  You can read the full transcript here, and you can pick up a free copy of Caliber to read the feature article on the interview.      This part contains a discussion of the problems facing the University, and the strategies Read More

Reflecting on Robert Reich, Part I: Useless Elections and Radical Democracy

March 2, 2013 | Rohit Although having the opportunity to interview Robert Reich was an undeniable honor, I was still disappointed in the lack of deep conversation about the underlying nature of American liberalism, capitalist political economy, the fundamental problems with the University, and other topics that do not ordinarily Read More

“Approaching a State-Shift in Earth’s Biosphere”

September 4, 2012 | Rohit A large team of scientists and researchers, many of them from Berkeley, have recently published a landmark paper in the prestigious science journal Nature, entitled "Approaching a State Shift in Earth's Biosphere." This is the abstract from the paper: Localized ecological systems are known to shift Read More

Reflections on the Colorado Shootings

August 3, 2012 | Rohit The opinions expressed by Caliber Magazine bloggers and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of Caliber Magazine or any affiliate thereof. The Onion nails it on the head with their take on the Colorado shooting: According to the nation's citizenry, calls Read More

The Politics of Music, Then and Now

July 19, 2012 | Rohit I want to go on a small, meandering ramble about the evolution of the politics of music. I was reading a little blurb by some 40-something year old fellow, and he was wondering how it was that people in our generation were listening to music from his era. In his experience, he and his peers never Read More

Inside Job: On Wall Street and the 2008 Financial Crisis

May 27, 2012 | Rohit I just watched the documentary Inside Job (2010) for the first time – a fact surprising to me, since I am of the sort that usually keeps up with these kind of critically-acclaimed criticisms of the status quo. And even though I had made myself familiar with most of the arguments in the film beforehand, Read More