Social movements from Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to #metoo have through their activism rejected the inheritances of the past and created new ways of understanding our contemporary world and acting in the present.
Category Archive: politics
The senator from Nebraska pretends to be both a thoughtful intellectual and a horny-handed son of toil, but he’s pretty much neither.
While it is true that most history professors are somewhere on the left end of the political spectrum, there are a number of problematic assumptions at the heart of the discourse of objectivity that warrant further investigation.
On May 17, 1838, the United States Army and local state militia initiated the forced removal that would […]
Cockpunches. Octopuses and otters. Shoe polish. Minnesota Mean. What the fuck is happening?
We know you have been waiting on pins and needles to find out who ToM’s Person of the […]
Maher’s criticisms of comic books and the individuals who read them aren’t novel, insightful, or even recent. He’s just the latest in a long line of moralizers and cultural critics who’ve ascribed various faults in American society to the pedestrian, easily-mockable comic book.
As the Central American caravan made its way through Mexico and we learned more about their conditions and efforts by Mexicans on both sides of the border, we continued to ask ourselves, “What would Sócrates do?”