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“Why do people who deal drugs have more rights than people who try to get up and go to work everyday and take their children to school,” asked San Francisco’s Mayor London Breed in an interview with KQED, a San Francisco based media company.[1] This was her response to a question about a previous statement saying that…
Read Full Article... about Crime, the Dangers of Racial Tropes, and the Limits of Racial MetaphorsThe reception of Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness has always been fraught, even frankly hostile. The early attacks among Marxists in the Soviet Union and Hungary provoked Lukács to write a clarifying “Defense” of his book, but he did not publish it and it has only recently been available. Those early attacks were effective: History and Class Consciousness practically…
Read Full Article... about The “New” LukácsRobert J. Lacey Introduction The insurrection on January 6, 2021 was one of the darkest hours in American political history. If there were any doubts that we live in desperate times, the images from that day have dispelled them for good. Searching for causes, many commentators have pointed to our fragmented media landscape and to the echo…
Read Full Article... about A Republic, If We Can Keep ItI had to be reminded that 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20thcentury: W.E.B. Dubois. Du Bois passed away the day before the legendary 1963 March on Washington. In fact, a few months prior to his death he wrote a solidarity statement with those engaged in the march. A…
Read Full Article... about The Continued Relevance Of W.E.B. Du Bois, Sixty Years OnWriting in response to a liberal criticism of a bill that “would make illegal the use of any ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] statements’ as part of the hiring, promotion and tenure process,” a philosophy professor at Brown, Felicia Nimue Ackerman, argued that “making such statements part of the hiring, promotion and tenure process is also an…
Read Full Article... about On LiberalismA Limit to Contingency In The Last Utopia (2012), Samuel Moyn famously argued that “human rights” as a principle transcending the prerogatives of nation-states did not actually emerge until the 1970s. The idea in this “pure” form only appeared then because it stood out in that context as “the God that did not fail while other political ideologies…
Read Full Article... about A Phenomenological Foundation for Human Ethics: An Essay in Philosophical AnthropologyThe world is made up of differences and similarities in culture and convictions. Unfortunately, it seems that the former has been gaining the attention of the global communities because of the different problems that have developed from it. Thousands of cultures have little meeting points with others, and there are different rationales behind the cultural…
Read Full Article... about Deepening Intercultural Dialogue and Integration for Global PeaceLately, it seems to be everywhere: conflict, and a bit of connection. Yet what do we do about it? How do we learn to cope with it? “I am amazed the amount of contention there can be in politics in so many countries,” says my friend Karmi, based in Tel Aviv but currently traveling the world.…
Read Full Article... about On Cities Of Friends And Riots: Between Conflict, Solidarity, And Struggles For RecognitionIt was always about that factory. Factory as a place for reproduction. For knowledge production. For a means of production. For autonomy. For class struggle. For observation. For a union hall. For breaks. For reimagining the working day. For reading a novel. For organizing. For getting away from it. For false promises. Maybe it was…
Read Full Article... about Stanley Aronowitz and That Big FactoryThe murder of George Floyd was a major catalyst event for the Black Lives Matter movement, motivating large numbers of Americans to take to the streets to spotlight structural racism in American policing. Subsequent polling found that as many as 10 percent of Americans reported attending protests for racial justice in the summer of 2020,…
Read Full Article... about The War on Anti-Racism: The Mainstreaming of Social Movements, and the Emerging Backlash
Latest Issue
2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
Latest Issue
2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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