“The U.S. today: a society in collapse because the security forces entrusted to protect its core liberal values—tolerance, freedom of association and speech, the consent of the governed—actually reject them as threats to security.” —Stuart Schrader

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Boston Review has published my remarks at the Harvard encampment bostonreview.net/articles/the-r…

“The real scandal is not that there has been student protest. It is that there has not been much, much more of it.”

Speaking at the Harvard encampment, historian Erik Baker reflects on the meaning of this moment of student activism:

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Front page of the Boston Review is an article for our times: '“Repression Is Always a Lesson'. Richard Pithouse interviews S’bu Zikode, leader of South Africa's shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end. bostonreview.net/articles/repre… #SouthAfrica #Apartheid

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“Repression is always a lesson.”

S’bu Zikode, leader of South Africa’s shack dwellers’ movement, speaks with Richard Pithouse about the need to build a “new system,” thirty years after apartheid’s end:

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“University administrators batted about clever ideas, such as revising arithmetic to make two and two equal five; punching holes through the world to prove its flatness...”

Fiction by E. Lily Yu, Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist:

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Monday at 2pm ET/7pm UK

'The Politics of Structural Injustice': Dr Maeve McKeown with Katrina Forrester

What is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it?

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Pls RT Bloomsbury Philosophy

'Is PTSD, by casting the soldier or cop as a passive victim, inimical to social change? Given the anti-imperialist activism behind its creation, why does it now seem so resolutely apolitical?' Hannah Proctor on the work of Robert Lifton:

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Super excited for my online book launch next Monday, 29 April, with the incredible Katrina Forrester😍 Hosted by The Philosopher and Boston Review

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'Fanon knew violence firsthand—both the everyday violence of a colonial order and the violence of modern war.'
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Today is Earth Day. In this interview, Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin discuss the climate crisis, the future of environmental politics, and “the political economy of saving the planet.”

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The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture

India and Israel are dusting off time-worn strategy from colonial archive: importing & exporting racially marked temporary labor to manage political and economic problems in one fell swoop.
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El mejor inicio para una reseña que he leido. Dennett era un grande.

Peter Filkins, On Bachmann. Via Boston Review.

Prabhat Patnaik was so prescient. Here’s his 2021 piece in Boston Review: bostonreview.net/articles/why-n…

'A great album is rewarding to listen to, and a great review articulates the experience of feeling rewarded—or if the record sucks, punished—as a listener...it also taps into something much bigger than the cultural object in question.'
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