Take two kids, the same age, who grew up in the same city. Which one is more likely to go to jail … or college? Source: www.npr.org “Just 33 children — out of nearly 800 — moved from the low-income… Continue reading

With its academics and its finances under fire, the Texas sports academy created by Deion Sanders, the Hall of Fame cornerback and N.F.L. commentator, faces the loss of its state charter. Source: www.nytimes.com If you understand Texans and football, you… Continue reading

A History of Gay Marriage by Rictor Norton Source: rictornorton.co.uk Continue reading

Destruction of land and soil by poor farming isn’t inevitable. Source: truth-out.org The perpetual cycle of planting mono-crops, saturating the crops and fields with toxic chemicals, tilling them under and replanting them destroys the soil and degrades the land by… Continue reading

When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture. Source: www.theatlantic.com The hardware-focused coverage of the war removed the empathy that… Continue reading

In light of the counter-revolutionary successes after Reagan and Powell, Herbert Marcuse’s ”philosophy of psychoanalysis” must be repurposed. Source: truth-out.org In light of the counter-revolutionary successes after Reagan and Powell, Marcuse’s “philosophy of psychoanalysis” in Eros and Civilization must be repurposed to… Continue reading

At last, here’s the video of NASA’s LDSD test—the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator system that will take a new rover to Mars, one even larger than Curiosity. It’s impressive to see the entire system in action, working like clockwork even while… Continue reading

The imagination can be the catalyst for collective liberation, but only if we embrace radical ideas and practices, and open ourselves to the possibility that our world could be radically different. Source: truth-out.org How can we understand the radical imagination… Continue reading

Teaching the Platonic Dialogues through sandwiches, by Dr. M. Ritchey, PhD Source: medium.com Continue reading

However much you admire the masters of uncanny or supernatural fiction, from MR James or Henry James to Sheridan Le Fanu and Walter de la Mare, you would be hard put to imagine any of them in the vicinity of… Continue reading