When we basebuild around prison abolition, the base we build is not deciding between inside versus outside of prison. It is not always a matter of whether you have been incarcerated or not to be engaged in the work although that context is still valuable when determining your role in it. I am conscious of […]
One of the most surprising things about teaching Shakespeare to intellectually disabled teenagers is how easy it is. It takes practice and patience, but once you understand what it actually means to teach Shakespeare, you can get those ninth graders arguing about Julius Caesar or A Midsummer Night’s Dream or pretty much any complex text […]
Content Warning: This article discusses suicide and self-harm. YouTuber Oliver Thorn, equipped with his philosophy and acting MAs, helps viewers make sense of the world— one earnest philosophy video at a time. British YouTuber Oliver Thorn tells me he’s glad to do this interview. He’s glad to know people are paying attention; more importantly, he’s […]
In a report marked for official use only recently obtained by Foreign Policy, the FBI assessed that “perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement,” classifying those espousing this ideology as “Black Identity Extremists,” or BIEs. This document, dated Aug. 3, was internally released less […]
Communism is, for us, not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. -Karl Marx, The German Ideology Last […]