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Christian Appy: UMass Arrests | What Would Daniel Ellsberg Do?

I am quite sure he would have been, as I am, deeply inspired by the passion of these young students.

May 21, 2024 · Leave a comment

Jeffrey Sterling: A Whistleblower’s First Post-Prison Trip Abroad

I wasn’t on that stage just to scare the audience about how horrible it will be to be charged under the Espionage Act, I was there to tell them that if I could stand up against it, so can the rest of the world. 

May 20, 2024 · 8 Comments

Gerald Fleming: On Ascension Thursday

Young prodigy. Has a way with words. Brings someone out of a coma. Preaches peace, rages against bankers, tries his hand at carpentry, sexy woman loves him, meets his friends for dinner every week, they drink wine, talk, he says smart things, then, random as the rest of us, he’s killed. Gets to ascend to heaven.

May 9, 2024 · 4 Comments

Baron Wormser: Era of Ill Will

It’s easier to be against something than to be for something, particularly since any ideal is bound to have flaws.

May 5, 2024 · 9 Comments

Desne A. Crossley: O Rosie Girl

it was one thing for a white man to bed a black woman, but unthinkable that he would marry her. And it was commonplace for a black woman to be forced to open her legs to her employer or his sons. But Martha married white and returned home with the man!

April 23, 2024 · 8 Comments

Video: Marina Abramović | History

Marina Abramović draws upon her upbringing in Communist Yugoslavia and offers insights into her artistic vision in collaboration with video artist Charles Atlas.

April 21, 2024 · Leave a comment

Baron Wormser: The System

Humankind never has been very aware of the consequences of their group actions, perhaps because large groups, in particular, are inherently thoughtless.

April 21, 2024 · 3 Comments

Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Hannah Hough: A Day in the Life of Parents Caring for a Child With Complex Medical Needs

As her parents see it, caring for Claire is part of the job of being parents and something they do gladly…

April 9, 2024 · 2 Comments

Bob Kunzinger: Moral Absolutism | Do Not Kill Children

Starvation is rampant and the conditions in Gaza have been called by Save the Children one of the “slowest, cruelest deaths” on record. It is a holocaust…

April 5, 2024 · 10 Comments

Jose Padua: Orange

Auntie Nellie was the first dead person I ever
saw and she was lying in her coffin in the church
in Orange, Virginia after spending her last years
in something like a dark mist…

March 26, 2024 · 4 Comments

Mike Vargo: Truck Drivers Who Hitchhike

I met my first hitchhiking truck driver one morning on a freeway near Columbus, Ohio.

March 26, 2024 · 4 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Trump Showed Us Who He Is the First Time Around

Trump 2.0 Would Be Even Worse

March 16, 2024 · 7 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: You Be the Judge

Can sending a poor person to prison and fining him excessively also be construed as a violation of equal protection, especially when the rich can buy their voting rights back upon release?

March 8, 2024 · 2 Comments

Mike Vargo: Is There a Real Me?

Believing in a real self would be easier if the self were not so inconsistent.

February 29, 2024 · 5 Comments

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