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Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy
It’s not what it used to be.
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Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state
How we rationalize the breach of human rights.
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The anti-Roe movement is rooted in the history of chattel slavery
They are not respecting "life." They are fearing "race suicide."
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Is the US ‘truly one nation’?
It feels good to think so.
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Are Republicans heirs of Lenin?
Not quite, but the comparison is instructive.
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The system that allowed Malcolm X’s killers to walk keeps giving white supremacy a free pass
In the decades since the assassination of Malcolm X, it might be comfortable to imagine we have traveled some way down the road of racial justice. But it’s a long road and not an easy one.
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The Rittenhouse verdict isn’t a win for self-defense. It’s another example of white men having better rights than the rest of us
American history has plenty examples of whole classes of people that were explicitly excluded from claiming self-defense in court.
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Our crisis is one of humility
Pride, shame, hate, violence, fascism -- all from the same source.
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The Republicans are taking their terror campaign to the next level
The Wisconsin GOP is mad about election officials following the law.
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In America, political violence is normal. So normal it's invisible
It should always be on people's minds.
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Biden’s policies are more popular than he is. For the first time in the modern era, the link between president and agenda is broken
How the press distorts political reality.
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Kyle Rittenhouse, Audre Lorde and the rage of righteousness
Still in search of democratic responsibility.