Source: Philosophical Salon We live in times of rampant social inequality and division. The extant political inequalities are hierarchical, and result in the increasing prevalence of wealthy…… Read more “IGNORANCE BY DESIGN by KIASHA NAIDOO AND FABIO TOLLON”

Source: ScheerPost Glenn Youngkin, the new governor of Virginia, announced during his first day in office this month that he is banning discussion of critical race theory…… Read more “Critical Race Theory Is Dangerous. That’s Why It Should Be Mandatory in American Schools by Dan Siegel”

You can skip to the 52:20 mark to hear this thought-provoking interview In this interview on the Chauncey DeVega show, author Leonce Gaiter explains how an allegiance…… Read more “Racism Will Bring America’s Ultimate Destruction”

Source: The Guardian Donald Trump’s elaborate plot to overthrow the democratically elected president was neither impulsive nor uncoordinated, but straight out of the playbook of another American coup…… Read more “Why is So Little Known About the 1930s Coup Attempt Against FDR? by Sally Denton”

 Source: The Marginalian When my atheist engineer grandfather died, my atheist engineer grandmother leaned over the body in the hospice bed that had contained half a century…… Read more “What Happens When We Die by Maria Popova”

    Racist ideas have long cast Black people as dangerous to the nation and White people as safe. But if there’s anything Jan. 6 showed us,…… Read more “Ibram X. Kendi Explains Why White Supremacy Is the Ultimate Diversion”

This is Hell! · Henry Giroux on his article Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year. / /

Source: TruthOut Cyn Rodriguez, an organizer with the Puerto Rican independence group Colectiva Solidaridad (Collective Solidarity), was sitting in the 350-seat auditorium of the Alexander Hamilton U.S.…… Read more “Activists Are Challenging Laws That Enable Vulture Funds to Exploit Global South by James Baratta”

  ‘On this episode of Vox Conversations co-host Sean Illing talks with philosopher David Chalmers about virtual worlds and the nature of reality, and other topics that…… Read more “Are We Living in a Simulation?”

Source: Independent Media Institute Alfred Ruf poisoned his wife as part of a scheme to get rich off her life insurance. So did Dr. Gregory “Brent” Dennis,…… Read more “Psychopaths in Suits by Thomm Hartmann”

The insurrectionary violence at the US Capitol that Donald Trump instigated on Jan. 6, 2021, marked another dark page in American history. But while many saw the…… Read more “‘This is not an aberration’: Jan. 6 and America’s Heart of Darkness”

Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”: “Savages we call them, because their Manners differ from ours, which we think the Perfection of Civility; they…… Read more “Musings”

Emboldened by the rapid development of technology, a cultural ethos of rugged individualism, globalization, and the monopolization of our media, the era of efficiency in the so-called…… Read more “Vijay Prashad on Capitalism’s Erosion of Morality”

  The sequel to The Corporation exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible — and how that threatens democratic freedoms. We witness recent groundswells of…… Read more “The Dark Heart of Capitalist America”

Source: The Marginalian Across epochs and cultures, in his famous indictment “it has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a…… Read more “JAMES BALDWIN: HAVE TENDERNESS FOR HOW HARD IT IS TO BE HUMAN”

sista bell hooks, to you, we owe an enormous debt that can never really be repaid in full. You fed our minds, gave us concepts like Black…… Read more “An Ode to bell hooks by Irma McClaurin”

Psychologist Paul Bloom discusses about his new book The Sweet Spot, and ponders whether it’s necessary to experience suffering in order to live a fulfilling, meaningful life.…… Read more “The Good Life Is Painful”

Source: The Marginalian “On how one orients himself to the moment,” 48-year-old Henry Miller (December 26, 1891–June 7, 1980) wrote in reflecting on the art of living…… Read more “The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart by Maria Popova”

One smile can start a friendship One word can stop a fight One look can save a relationship One hug can spark a hope One touch can…… Read more “A Simple Appeal To Our Better Angels”

How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of even the strongest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world. Each thing-…… Read more “Poet’s Nook: “Book of Hours II, 16” by Rainer Maria Rilke”

by Nicholas Parker More than some years ago I was speaking with my two nephews and my sister-in-law. The subject of feminism arose and I mentioned that…… Read more “In An Even Marginally Healthy Society“

Source: TomDispatch Who knew that Martians, inside monstrous tripodal machines taller than many buildings, actually ululated, that they made eerily haunting “ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla” sounds? Well,…… Read more “Welcome to the Martians! by Tom Engelhardt”

Shortly before Virginia’s gubernatorial election on November 2, the Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, circulated an ad in which a white woman calls for Virginia public schools to…… Read more “GOP’s Banning of Books and Attack on Teachers Expose the Party’s Rising Fascism by Henry Giroux”

    It happened three months before the lynching of Isadora Moreley in Selma, Alabama, and two months before the lynching of Sidney Randolph near Rockville, Maryland.…… Read more “Worth Re-Reading: The American Nightmare by Ibram X. Kendi (Atlantic – 6/1/2020)”

   “Most People Don’t Pay Attention to What’s Going On” Speaking to Salon’s Chauncy de Vega about how the United States is mired in a crisis of…… Read more “On Mass Political Inattention by Paul Street”

Source: The Marginalian  From her stirring poetry to her timeless wisdom on love, loss, and creativity, beloved poet and feminist Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929–March 27, 2012) endures…… Read more “How Relationships Refine Our Truths: Adrienne Rich on the Dignity of Love by Maria Popova”