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We are legion.
The student: Since the beginning of time, man has reached for greater heights. The talking…
Neoliberalism’s “casino capitalism” has stacked the political deck in favor of powerful private interests. At every step, however, protesters and other activists have opposed neoliberal logic and demanded the rights of people over the right to profits.
Our first week in a post-Anthony Kennedy America was about as bad as one would…
I believe Dr. Ford because I have lived her pain, and have felt similarly “derailed” by the abuse of another. I understand intrinsically why she did not initially report her assault as a teenager.
Like The Andy Griffith Show, the near total absence of black characters on The Beverly Hillbillies made the show’s southernness more viable to its millions of viewers. It taught them that erasing was easier than confronting the weighty problem of white southern racism.
This week was a banner one in Trumpian surrealism, as the big, wet president vowed…
A war is raging in the heart of the History Department — a contest over…
