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O Ye Biased Professors! The Question of Objectivity and Liberal Bias in the History Profession

  • by Is this your homework, Larry?
  • Posted on February 15, 2019February 15, 2019

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.

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  • politics

Midnight in Atlanta: Thinking about the Catastrophe Two Years Later

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on November 2, 2018November 3, 2018

No real best-of this week.  Instead, we at Tropics of Meta are taking stock of…

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  • book excerpt

Storming the Casino: Dawson Barrett on the Rise of Today’s New Resistance Movements

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on October 24, 2018February 10, 2019

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.

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  • Aneurysms

This Week’s Roundup: Hast Thou Considered the Emu?

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on August 24, 2018August 25, 2018

The semester comes in, the semester goes out… you can’t explain it.  You can’t explain…

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  • book reviews

Demanding the Impossible in the Time of Trump: On Activism and History as a “Usable Past”

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on June 13, 2018July 14, 2018

This past April, I attended a local adaptation of En el tiempo de las mariposas…

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  • Neoliberalism

Can We Imagine Something More? Reckoning with Naomi Klein’s No Is Not Enough

  • by arkodasgupta
  • Posted on September 5, 2017December 4, 2017

In his lecture “The Robbery of the Soil,” Rabindranath Tagore imagines the moon to have…

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  • abortion

Can Democrats Win by Peeling Off Pro-Life Voters? Probably Not

  • by davidaustinwalsh
  • Posted on August 10, 2017August 10, 2017

Journalist Lauren Duca received a lot of criticism in the Twitterverse from more moderate and…

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  • anarchism

Beyond “Point-of-Production” Organizing: The Radical Potential of Building the Solidarity Economy

  • by Sean Keith
  • Posted on July 26, 2017July 26, 2017

Participatory budgeting (PB) and workers cooperatives–two pillars of the solidarity economy–offer some of the best…

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