CONCEITS OF THE FOGY SET... Old People Need to Get Over Ourselves!
Today’s Music Sucks
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.
Napoleon, Robert E. Lee and the Cult of Past Personalities
MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP EXALTING PEOPLE AND START EXALTING IDEAS
The Real Problem with Cancel Culture
The problem isn't Cancel Culture, per se. The problem is the overlap between capital and the public discourse. When advertising dollars rest on what a person says, capital will often become the priority when the norms of discourse are violated.
Not a Bigot in a Hat. Not a Bigot with a Cat…
THE WAR AGAINST RACIST REPRESENTATIONS
Protests, Riots, and Discursive Bubbles
You agree with the protestors, you'll find plenty of examples on-line of protestors doing noble and heroic things. Think the protestors are nothing more than Antifa scum? You'll have this assumption reinforced when all of your friends post pictures and video of masked rioters breaking windows and flipping cars. Think the police are heroes? You'll get all kinds of footage of police being heroic. Think the police are fascist scum? Yeah. You'll be able to download outrageous acts of brutality.
Marx’s Commiebots and the Fall of Capitalism
Where mankind stands in the robot age will depend on the vitality of democracy when the transition happens.
Remember when it was okay to criticize the military?
If there were ever a time for stepping up a cultural critique of American militarism and our "forever war" footing, it's now.
On Walls, Refugees and White Walkers
What if The Wall had never been built? What lessons might this teach us in the real world?
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