Smiting the Canaanites
Did this every happen to you in childhood? Someone does something wrong while the teacher isn’t looking. Getting no response to her demand that the perpetrator step forward or be named, the teacher...
View ArticleMy Favorite Christmas
As many Catholics celebrate midnight mass, I’m remembering one of my all-time favorite activist actions. Back in the early 1990s, I was a member of the Ann Arbor chapter of ACTUP (AIDS Coalition to...
View ArticleAnimal Cognition and Human Exceptionalism
“Stop me if I start to turn this into a story. It’s not a narrative that makes sense. It’s just what happened.” That’s what I said to my former therapist a couple of years ago when I went back to her...
View ArticleStriking in the New Year
The aftermath of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan got me thinking about leadership, messianism, and anarchist tactics. On the day of the assassination, I found myself picking up and...
View ArticleThe Real War on Christmas
I was about to blog something sarcastic about the fantasy “War on Christmas” decried by Fox News and the rest of the right when the real news stopped me in my tracks. In Nigeria, Islamic militants...
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