Richard Cravatts
For an event titled "Dismantling Anti-Semitism, Winning Justice," an interested observer might reasonably assume that this virtual panel discussion, scheduled for December 15th, would discuss ways to minimize instances of widespread antisemitism with the goal of reducing—or eliminating—its occurrence. That is what one would think, but in this [...]
Mark Tapson
In a revealing 2013 network promo, then-host Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC caused a stir by declaring, in the context of children’s education, “We’ve always had kind of a private notion of children: ‘Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility.’ We haven’t had a very collective notion that [...]
Philip Carl Salzman, PhD
Identity politics demands the reduction of individual identity to collective census category identities. You are no longer an individual person with hopes and fears, talents and abilities, and motivations and opinions. The most important thing about you is your sex, or your race, or your sexuality, or your [...]