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“Coming Apart” – Harper’s Magazine
The term we commonly use for what is happening in the Mission is “gentrification.” But the changes at hand are taking place on a far greater scale, and are connected to a nationwide reorganization of places, resources, and possibilities. In his new book, We Gon’…
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The Dangerous Myth That Hillary Clinton Ignored the Working Class – The Atlantic
The more frightening possibility for liberals is that Clinton didn’t lose because the white working class failed to hear her message, but precisely because they did hear it. Trump’s white voters do support the mommy state, but only so long as it’s mothering them. Most of them don’t seem eager…
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Public infrastructure, private investment
#Infrastructure is a new buzzword… should NOT be a buzzword as it is absolutely crucial to the life of any civilization. But it is the buzzword because the president-elect promises to go heavy and hard on upkeep/new projects. Of course, what will come of all this will be further neoliberal…
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Richest administration in modern American history
Billionaires and millionaires meeting with president elect inside the Trump Tower: “What kind of government have you made for us?” Donald the Trumpeter to elite followers: “An unabashedly open plutocracy if you can ravage it!” How can anyone still believe that the in-coming administration is doing things radically differently? The only…
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Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
Every demagogue needs an enemy. Trump’s was the ruling elite, and his charge was that they were not only failing to solve the greatest problems facing Americans, they were trying to stop anyone from even talking about those problems. “The special interests, the arrogant media, and the political insiders, don’t…
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What Normalization Means – The New Yorker
Normalization isn’t just a matter of human-interest stories and a faith in checks and balances. What we think of as normal shapes our field of vision; it tells a story of the world and its possibilities. Racism, sexism, and the other hatreds and phobias lately on display didn’t become normalized…
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Research links racial resentment with gun ownership
The first step in our analysis was to understand the individual characteristics and political alliances and beliefs that are associated with gun ownership. To do this, we examined data from the 2012 American National Election Studies survey. Using a model that controlled for race, age, gender, education, income, partisan identification,…
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More clickbait about Clinton
Not really sure how the Trumpistas can keep yelling that the media is bending over backwards to elect Clinton at all costs when every paper and news channel, even “friendly” and “supportive” ones like the WaPo keep creating these clickbait titled reports. Republicans only read the clickbait and never parse…
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Lost in Translation: More from a Stranger in Academia
Another great reflection The Becoming Radical on the “loving struggle” to educate via critical pedagogy… Decade four and round two in academia—this time at the university level where, one might assume, things would be easier. First, a flashback. I am the English department chair, and the entire faculty… Source: Lost…
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Becoming Other: Foucault, Deleuze, and the Political Nature of Thought | Learning Philosophy of Change
In this paper–linked after the jump–Giorgio Bertini employs the notion of the ‘thought of the outside’ as developed by Michel Foucault, in order to defend the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze against the criticisms of ‘elitism,’ ‘aristocratism,’ and ‘political indifference’–famously leveled by Alain Badiou and Peter Hallward… Source: Becoming Other: Foucault, Deleuze, and…
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Trump supporters are not the wretched of the earth
It’s about race, culture, and identity — not economics. …The press has gotten extremely comfortable with describing a Trump electorate that simply doesn’t exist. Cottle describes his supporters as “white voters living on the edges of the economy.” This is, in nearly every particular, wrong. There is absolutely no evidence…
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Leonard Cohen’s New Album is Streaming, And It’s Wonderful — Flavorwire
Thank you NPR! The venerable public broadcaster is streaming Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker as part of its First Listen program, and you can hear it below. You should probably stop whatever you’re doing and listen. The album is, as its title suggests, very much concerned with dying light…
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It’s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election – The Washington Post
It would be nice if this election could contain zero people who sexually assault. Source: It’s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election – The Washington Post
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Hacked WikiLeaks show nothing we don’t already know
I’m really not sure what the purpose of these emails leaks is supposed to be. They are not showing anything that most voters don’t already know. In fact, I would almost go far so far as to say the WikiLeaks folks have little or nothing all that significant to reveal…
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Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature – The Washington Post
The musician is the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. Source: Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature – The Washington Post
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