CONCEITS OF THE FOGY SET... Old People Need to Get Over Ourselves!
Today’s Music Sucks
But Afghanistan was an Almost Perfect War
But don't worry. There's still plenty of war to invest in.
They Were Always There…They Were Just Hiding
In the last few years I've had between one and six transgender students on my class roster. This is great! But where were these students in the first two and a half decades of my career? Well, they were there.
Critical Race Theory, Sex, God, and Dangerous Knowledge
The seemingly sudden campaign against Critical Race Theory is just one small episode in a larger series of battles to control public knowledge and the accepted narrative.
Lecture 16: Social Isolation
WHY PEOPLE NEED OTHER PEOPLE
Sympathy for Idiots
a category based on the absence of an attribute, in this case empirical reason, is often a weak explainer. If reason and evidence isn't motivating this movement, then what is? Dismissing this particular end of the "basket of deplorables" as idiots doesn't offer a satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Nor does it offer an opportunity to reach out to this group and maybe change their minds. There must be a better way to describe this phenomenon.
The Late, Great United States
The future of democratic progress is in the hands of a party rung by Joe Biden and being manipulated by Joe Manchin. Yeah. That's not a good sign.
The Twisted DNA of Capitalism: Part IIa Disease and Capital
The twisted dance between capitalism and disease is not just a contingency, it is incorporated into the DNA of our political economy.
The GOP is No Longer a Governing Party
Its turn away from governing to the cynical exercise of power and obstruction is an intentional, strategic decision made by its elite and exercised by those who do the work of the institution. So long as this strategy works, it is unreasonable to believe that we'll see any significant changes to how the party functions going forward.
The Nacerima Compromise: A Parable
A parable of politics gone horribly wrong. Not that anything like this could happen in real life. But if it did, and your shoes ended up pissy, it's probably your own damn fault!
