Our current crisis is not one in which the application of the Constitution is uncertain. Rather, it's a question of whether or not the Constitution even matters in the face of a charismatic leader and party loyalty.
Where mankind stands in the robot age will depend on the vitality of democracy when the transition happens.
ON DEFEATING OUR INNER THANOS
HOW DOES SOCIETY SHAPE WHO WE ARE?
The nation state is going the way of the dodo. Either a transnational capitalist class will structure power relations throughout the world, or a global democratic movement will step up and demand justice. Which would you rather see happen?
AND I WAS THERE. HERE'S WHAT I SAW
If there were ever a time for stepping up a cultural critique of American militarism and our "forever war" footing, it's now.
It is incumbent upon thinking, freedom-loving people, to protests the trespasses made against others' lives and freedoms immediately. We cannot allow there to be an Auschwitz Bar that must be passed before it's fair to decry inhumanity being carried out in our name.
What if The Wall had never been built? What lessons might this teach us in the real world?
