On "Swastika Night," Segregation, and Self-Regard
I've been thinking a lot recently about this book, Swastika Night, by Katherine Burdekin, which I originally read a couple of years ago. It was published in 1937, as WWII was ramping up, and I think...
View ArticleInequality as Pre-existing Condition
I've been thinking recently about Trump's obvious difficulty with the democratic process. There's been a lot of talk about the fact that he hasn't fulfilled his campaign promises and that his main...
View ArticleSome Things You Might Not Know About Refugees and Asylum Seekers
I did a data visualization project on refugees and asylum seekers last year (I will not display it here because the visualization aspect was not great), and in the process I learned that I had a lot of...
View ArticleIt's all about the State: But Not in the Way You Think
I just finished reading a pretty wild book, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, by Timothy Snyder. His argument, which I find satisfying, mindblowing, and a lot too relevant for comfort,...
View ArticleTrump Suddenly Very Worried about Safety of Women and LGBTQ People: Something...
I find this fascinating (although of course also horrifying), and I haven't seen anyone on any of the mainstream media outlets paying attention to it. Here's a little nugget hidden away in Section 1 of...
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The Warming-Pan Scandal; or, Fake News May Be Fake, but It Ain't New
You probably already know about the Warming Pan Scandal if you either a-are British, b-study British history, or c-like BBC documentaries. I fall into category C. Last night I was watching a BBC...
View ArticleIt's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Capitalism...
I just went to Barnes and Nobles to pick up last minute Christmas presents for my girlfriend (I had something already--I didn't totally forget, just needed one more thing). It's crowded today, as I...
View ArticleDangerous Orthodoxies: Post-Election Cautions
Hey, y'all. It's been a while since I wrote anything here. But in addition to the standard things that are worrying lots of Americans in the just-pre-Trump era (which are extensive, and which I don't...
View ArticleOn the History of the Word "Genocide"
For the past few days I've been meaning to sit down and write about the current fractious triangle between Black Lives Matter, progressive Jews, and the word "genocide." But last night I sat down to do...
View ArticleSome Context from the World of Police Misconduct and Bias
For your general information, it turns out that there's some other stuff going on right now in US policing that for some reason isn't being brought into the current discussion of policing practices:New...
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I've been really grappling with my students' reading difficulties recently. We've been getting more students with genuine learning disabilities (there's some evidence that as area graduation rates have...
View ArticleAnother Look: Why HB2 is bad for you even if you're not trans
With all the insanity right now surrounding the "North Carolina bathroom bill," especially given McCrory's decision to wait until after 5 pm on the day of the federal deadline and then decide to sue...
View ArticleWhat it Means to be Part of the Establishment: Hillary is a Product ofHer...
For all 5 of you (and that's an optimistic estimate!) who are still following this blog, I don't want to leave anyone with the impression that I think Hillary is a bad person. I don't. I do, however,...
View Article"Just Shut Up and Vote:" Pragmatism, Tone, and the Silencing of theAmerican Left
So I've been following with interest, as I'm sure other Bernie supporters have, the brou-ha-ha surrounding Hillary's campaign withholding debates based on Bernie's "tone." In particular, I've been kind...
View ArticleOn Female Poisoners: An Unlikely but Instructive Metaphor for the War on Terror
So here's something I was thinking about earlier today. In Europe and America, it's pretty widely believed that poison is "a woman's weapon," and conversely, that most poisoners are women. This turns...
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To Other Progressives: Stop Rolling Over Before It's Over!!
I honestly have never thought of this blog as any kind of straight-up political blog, and I still don't want it to be that way permanently, but I am once again moved by the floating Zeitgeist on...
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On Bernie Sanders' Jewishness: He's Not Really Hiding It
So apparently in the recent Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders was asked why he never talks about being Jewish. According to the Huffington Post, this is what he said:I am very proud to be Jewish. Being...
View ArticleOn the Media Response to the Oregon Standoff: Or Why it's Not Progressive to...
I know I am overdue for a post here to talk about how race and class come to intersect--I put it off not because I don't think it's important, but because I think it is important, and I've been having...
View ArticleOn Flint, Michigan: or, why white people misrecognize privilege
OK, so I've been reading about the water situation in Flint, and with all that there is about that incredibly unjust situation to be furious about, here's one thing that's really pissing me off about...
View ArticleOpening the Vacuum Packaging of the Holocaust: or, What Happened Last Time
I am a person who is often infuriated, but probably one of the things that infuriates me most is the use of mythologized history in an inaccurate way which (almost always) supports people in acting out...
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