HOW DOES SOCIETY SHAPE WHO WE ARE?
Lecture 15: Socialization and Identity
Beyond the Nation State
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?
Teachers March on Emancipation Ave, for Immigrant Rights:
AND I WAS THERE. HERE'S WHAT I SAW
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.
Lowering the Holocaust Bar
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.
On Walls, Refugees and White Walkers
What if The Wall had never been built? What lessons might this teach us in the real world?
Fetuses do NOT have Rights
Attributing rights to an embryo/fetus is ridiculous from the start. Here's why.
Roe is as Good as Dead
We are well on the way to a society in which women, upon conception, become nothing more than vessels for the unborn.
How Are We Going to Pay for This?
First, there's plenty of money for everyone to get the benefits that they want. There's absolutely no need to have debates about raising taxes, deficits or MMT. All such arguments are distractions. If we want to pay for things like Medicare for All, Free College, or the Green New Deal, we need look no further than the coffers of the Transnational Corporate Class.
