1. In the early morning hours of October 19, 1998, the Two Elk Lodge and other structures at the Vail ski resort in Colorado burst into flame, the result of an arson attack soon claimed by members of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) movement. It was one of many arsons […]
Today is May 5, Karl Marx’s 208th birthday. Last night, celebrities got together for the annual display of wealth that is the Met Gala, this year with the billionaire Bezos family as honorary chairs. Could there be a more appropriate anticipation of Marx’s birthday? Protestors should have set up cake […]
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1. Director Justin Kurzel’s latest feature film, The Order, tells the true story of a group of white power terrorists in the Pacific Northwest who killed Jewish radio “shock jock” Alan Berg, bombed porn theatres and a synagogue, counterfeited money, robbed banks and armored cars, and planned other attacks and […]
I have made my story “Where’s the Rest of Me?” available on this site, and there are ePub and PDF files of it to download for anyone who prefers reading that way. The story was first published in my collection Blood: Stories (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and was reprinted in Wilde […]
I did not look at the election results as they came in last night, because why bother? I’d voted, there was nothing else I could do. The results were unlikely to be definitive before I fell asleep. No need to torment myself. This was the right decision. I slept well. […]
Little did we know, Kamala Harris’s secret weapon is laughter and joy. When Joe Biden stepped down as the Democratic nominee for President and Harris stepped up, there was, of course, a great sigh of relief from many people — with every public event, Biden had begun to look less […]
Published almost 25 years ago, Ira Shor’s When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy is a book full of practical ideas that will still be of interest to teachers today. Indeed, it’s depressing how relevant is remains. But this is also no surprise. On the second page […]
“Many researchers long for change,” an article at OpenUP Hub states, adding that such researchers “may desire to publish in new formats; to separate results from methodology and analysis in peer review; to consider qualitative output evaluations; to spread their research as far as possible through open repositories; to integrate […]