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A Closetful of Resistance

A newly published paper in the journal Media, War, and Conflict dissects “the art of shoe-throwing” in light of George Bush’s December near-encounter with the liberated footwear of an Iraqi journalist. Though the political significance of shoes predates the incident—statues of Saddam were so pelted back in 2003—the University of Brighton’s Yasmin Ibrahim argues that Bush helped set off a wave of loafer-related uprisings ... (Read more in Double X.)