The Thread of One’s Anger — Jean-Paul Sartre
I always felt I had to stay in contact with the world, with my world. Ever since Marx, philosophy must lead to action. Otherwise it is irrelevant. So a philosopher does what he has to…
I always felt I had to stay in contact with the world, with my world. Ever since Marx, philosophy must lead to action. Otherwise it is irrelevant. So a philosopher does what he has to…
The United States leads the world in percentage of its population that it incarcerates, every 1 in 100 people is currently either incarcerated or on probation or parole, and the rates of incarceration have increased…
Dear Friends, Cristina came to hear Remi Kanazi last Wednesday and to see Five Broken Cameras and hear Iyad Burnat last Friday. I asked her if she’d be willing to write a response. This is what she…
Napoleon is said to have described the English as a nation of shopkeepers. It is a fitting description. They hold whatever dominions they have for the sake of their commerce. Their army and their navy…
1. The work of this emotion requires people who throw themselves actively into what is becoming, to which they themselves belong. To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the…
1. In fact, there is no way that I know of apprehending the world from within American culture (with a whole history of exterminism and incorporation behind it) without also apprehending the imperial contest itself. …
This coming Sunday 26 January, I invite you to join us to be with Sarah Kuziez, a 2013 graduate of Maryville University. Having been inspired by Sarah’s passion, spirit, and resourcefulness, I encouraged her to…
You remember your Dr. King We remember ours You believe that in these times Dr. King would like diversity and inclusion You cite his “content of their character” “rather than the color of their skin”…
I recently came across this from Amiri Baraka in Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling’s collection of essays, Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School … For those of us in the arts or the…
Allen Ginsberg once noted, “Appreciation is the sacrament.” So this, on Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, from Alice Walker.