Section
Politics
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Necessary Villains: Explaining Cultural Marxism
“If Jews didn’t exist, the right would need to invent them, to act as the snake in the garden.”
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Lyrics of the Student Intifada
There is an elegy that echoes from the universities of Gaza to the universities of the world.
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Like Trees By Water
lock-armed and mealy mouthed atop us / the blockade begins to sing / and cross-legged / fetal below / we join
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We Keep Us Safe
At every step, the strength found in solidarity was instrumental in sustaining the movement.
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A Tale of Two Graduations
In their different ways, the People’s Graduations restored my belief in the university—not as an imprimatur of excellence or a factory of social mobility, but as a community of scholars devoted to freedom and truth.
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From Palestine to NYC: Globalizing the Intifada
On the central platform’s mast, a fluttering Palestinian flag challenges the legitimacy of the official American one positioned a few meters above.
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Because Grief Is Collective, Healing Is Too
I watched news incessantly, like it was going to save me. I stopped sleeping at night.
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When the Singing Turned to Screams
The city had to wash the blood of students off the ground, and both it and Emerson are pretending nothing happened.
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On Being Disruptive
To say that the protests were not disruptive helps us look for the real reasons as to why the police were called. There are many.
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The Campus Transformed: A Protest Archive
There is no better time to revisit the accounts and reflections from the spring uprisings, in the words of participants and onlookers themselves.
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The Porous Prison
“People who may have conceived of a child on a conjugal visit, and changed that child’s diapers and taught them how to fish inside prison, are now forbidden to give them a hug.”
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Frivolity Is Not Unserious
“When we try to write about trauma, no matter what the trauma we wish to explore, it’s the poet’s job to do their homework.”
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Violent Majorities Part III: Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
“This is what Hindutvites in India do all the time, and they’ve just repurposed their domestic disinformation campaign to support the Zionist defense of Israel.”
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Violent Majorities Part II: Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
“There are still atrocities being committed in the name of Jewish supremacism and in the name of territorial maximalism.”
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Violent Majorities Part I: Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
“We have to have some way to say you could be a Hindu without being Hindutva.”
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Protest Pedagogy
The encampments could be understood as masterful examples of project-based learning in civic engagement.
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The Postmodern War Machine—A View of “Dyspolitics” from Russia
This is a war of unusually pure propaganda, in which tanks and bombs are subordinate to bizarre rhetorical turns.
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Fighting Discrimination and Sexual Violence in Women’s Prisons
Even at the low-security prison that held actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, sexual violence against imprisoned women is rampant.
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Fatal Chase: Cops and the Illusion of Control
Police chases place ordinary citizens in grave danger. No amount of training or increasingly strict department policies will change that.
