Tyranny: Consent and Resistance
We have to be braced, both in the sense that history gives us a framework for seeing what’s possible, but also in realizing that some of what’s possible is terrifying.
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We Will Bring About Our Own Liberation
“Everything we need is already inside of us as black people. It’s absolutely necessary that we recognize our very rich history of rebellion in this country, one that we can learn from and build off of, and that we can use right now in this moment.
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On Hope and Wild Possibilities
2004: “The old shapes, the old forms no longer contain the possibilities. I think something wildly different is going to happen, and that leaves room for wonderful as well as terrible things.”
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Orientalism: Hate, Lies, and Hegemony
If you go to a bookstore today, right now, you can find a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in the fiction section. That’s exactly where it belongs.
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One Foot in Front of the Other
The sad truth is that we haven’t had the same sort of freedom to wander the streets of the city that the flâneur has had.
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Race and Class, Intertwined
To fully understand the racial wealth gap and wealth inequality in general in the United States, we’ve got to understand how wealth was created.
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The Robots Are Coming and We Are Not Ready
If corporations that have no concern about people or the planet are allowed to take this to its lowest common denominator, nobody will survive on this planet except for the über-wealthy and the robots.
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Politics and Propaganda in Lebanon and Syria
Revolutionary processes are long term, with ups and downs. It’s not the end of this history. We should have hope even in these catastrophic times, and it’s very far from being the end.
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Frauducation and the New Economy
Most people pay for higher education by taking on debt. That means the individual is basically financing—through the publicly-supported federal student aid process—the training that employers will not provide. Workers are feeling that, and they are angry.
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An Economics Against Suffering
If you meet Buddha on a yacht, kill him.
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