A Real American without a country
Hulk Hogan in 2011. Photo by Dave Moss/Wikimedia Commons. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was a wifebeater. Bret “Hitman” Hart was a serial philanderer. Scott Steiner tried to gouge out th...
Culture, USA Politics,
MAGA and the pope
Pope Leo XIV Inauguration Mass In St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City. Photo courtesy the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales/Flickr. Habemus papam—we have a new Pope, and...
A Plea for Nonviolence: Fighting Fascism in Trump’s America
The violence that accompanied recent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia is merely the opening salvo in a larger conflict between those advocating fascism and those committed to human decency,…
How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
Photo by Mark Dixon As white nationalism and the so-called “alt-Right” have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of…
Colin Kaepernick: Patriotism and the Owning Class
Photo by Gerry Melendez Colin Kaepernick took a courageous and principled stand last season by kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games. This was done in response to a…
A Nation of the Walking Dead
Illustration by Harvard Business Review Opioids and experiences that simulate the deadening effects of narcotics are mechanisms to keep us submissive and depoliticized. Desperate citizens in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel…
Muhammad Ali Understood the Racist Roots of War and Militarism
Photo from Dutch National Archives With all the discussion and debate these days about intersectionality and the need for progressives to link our movements against racism and against war, the…
The Grand Illusion
Photo by Menendj In the years since 9/11, American police alone have killed at least twice as many Americans as died in that single large event, the annual toll of…
We Kill Our Revolutionaries
The State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Lithograph by P.S: Duval and Co., 1855. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—Siddique Hasan, his legs shackled to a chair, sat in the fourth-floor visiting…