Disparaging, suppressing or forgetting the horrors of history has become a valued and legitimating form of political and symbolic capital, especially among the Republican Party and conservative media

Challenging the Politics of Isolated Incidents

A crucial challenge for progressives is to counter the underlying conditions that cause the collective consciousness to incorporate elements of fascist politics

Interview on the events of Jan 6th, the destruction of public education and degeneration of mass culture

Trumpism is a worldview that defines culture as a battleground of losers and winners, a world in which everything is rigged against whites

Such violence has a long history in the U.S. and has been normalized under the aegis of Trumpism as a right-wing populist movement

A Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday

The COVID-19 crisis has amplified a surrealist hallucination that floods our screens and media with images of fear, trepidation, and dread

In the end, there is no democracy without informed citizens and no justice without a language critical of injustice

Americans can survive Trump — and even a second term of Trump — if they resurrect a language of critique and possibility, and develop a mass movement that draws from history and provides the economic, cultural and political conditions to lift the U.S. out of the present-day socio-political morass