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Trump
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The Ableism of Kings, the Fury of Trump
I usually flinch from swashbuckling claims, but let me make this one at least: No hero from ancient myth feels as human as Odysseus. No one as relatable in their indomitable will to survive. Is it any wonder, then, that the Odyssey is having a moment, as humans seem barely to be surviving at all?…
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This Is Not a Choice—It Is a Charge: How HBCUs Must Embrace Black Radical Love & Empower Queer and Trans* Students
This essay calls in HBCUs to recommit to Black queer and trans* inclusion.
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Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed
The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.
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In the Führerbunker with Carlyle and Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin—and, through him, arguably, Thomas Carlyle—has now emerged as a significant source of ideas for the present administration.
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“Lying in Politics”: Hannah Arendt’s Antidote to Anticipatory Despair
Four months in, the new Trump administration is already moving from self-deception and deception on to “image making” and “ideologizing”; it is fast approaching complete “defactualization.”
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“Dignity Matters as Much as Material Needs”: Michèle Lamont on Recognition Claims and Understanding American Politics
“To recognize the existence of injuries requires the recognition of others and their dignity.”
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How the U.S. Weaponized COVID against Migrants
Immigrants in the United States during the pandemic faced the same discrimination, disenfranchisement, violence, and terror as before—only intensified.[none-for-homepage]
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Your Prius Is Not Enough
Many of those who voted for Donald Trump were elated by his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. For Trump supporters, environmentalism is a dirty word, and like other policies designed to protect the natural world, the Paris accord was bad for American jobs, foisted on the country by out-of-touch tree huggers. Environmentalists, the stereotype…
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How Ayn Rand Got into the White House
Even though the Trump administration seems to be conducting policy by Twitter, texts longer than 140 characters are rumored to be central to its worldview …
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How Conservatives Waged a War on Expertise
Donald Trump rooted his antiestablishment campaign in an attack on government, political parties, and the media. As president, he has escalated …
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@X: Making America White 200 Years Ago
In January 1817, more than three thousand African Americans gathered in Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia …
