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Without Words

A Brief Note

Thoughts on the Thanksgiving Song

Sunday Essay: Telling Stories

Weekend Reading and Viewing List

TBT: Do They Care It's Christmas

What I Fear

Cult of Personality

A Question of Morality

Trump and New Jersey's Immigrant Community

Trump Shows Pro-Israel Hardline Hand

Monday Music: Dylan's Anthem for Israel

Sunday Reading List: On Fascism, Fear, and Trumpism

Saturday Cartoon: An Oldie on Trump and Forest Fires

The Center Cannot Hold

In the Aftermath

Election Day

Monday Music: ‘Which Side Are You On?’

Sunday Poem: The Poor Places

Saturday Reading List: On Being "Despairalyzed"

I Voted for Kamala Harris

TBT: News Deserts and the Demise of Journalism

Trump, Race, and the GOP

When Daddy Comes Home

Monday Music: Dancing to the Apocalypse

Trump to Reprise ‘A Night at the Garden’

Post's Disingenuous Decision

Israel Targets Journalists

Academic Freedom is Under Attack

Monday Music: Notes on Kris Kristofferson

Reading List 9-29

Essay: The Widening War

Saturday Note: Erasing the Palestinians

Monday Music Notes: A Lost Gem

Against Ethno-Nationalisms

Academe: One Big Union

A Matter of Accountability

Grassroots: Capitalism’s Intertwined Ills

Save the Humanities

Press Critique: More Word Choice Follies

Grassroots Preview: A Defining Moment

Monday Music: The Chain that Binds the Eras

What's Good for the Jews

Press Critique: Confirmation Bias

With Trump, the Lies Don’t Matter

The Trump Cult Responds

The ‘Nazi Effect’

Out of the Shadows

American Inhumanity

The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel

No Need for Special Protections

Justices on Tape

A Symbol Against Her Will

TBT: Writing About Police Abuse

No Room at the Inn: Biden Closes the Border

The Ghosts of American Rivers

The Show Trials Continue

Unions Push Back Against Foxx Committee

Sunday Poem: Photos from Gaza

Alzheimer's in a Doctor Who World

Not in My Name

College Clampdown

Photographic Evidence

The Cult of Trump

Arguing Antisemitism in the Forward

Capitalism' Homelessness Trap

Bonus Video: Defending Academic Freedom

The Great Rollback

A Speech in Defense of Academic Freedom

Recent Readings: On Palestinian, OJ, and Women's Basketball

Sunday Poem: Doc Gets His Due

Press Annotation: Structural Bias

Grassroots Preview: Ill-Defined

TBT: Remember the USA PATRIOT Act?

Still Slouching

Remembering a 'Party at the End of the World'

Photo: Silent Music

Tall Tales and Conspiracy

Let My People Speak

TBT: The War on Drugs

R.I.P. Richard Lewis

Discussion: Bias in the News

Press Critique: Dissecting Bias

Discuss the Song 'East Jerusalem West Jerusalem'

Music Monday: Music for Peace

Audio Notes on the Unhoused

Weekend Reading: Notes on Decolonization and Higher Education

Attacking Academic Freedom

Doing More Than Plugging the Gaps

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

TBT: Immigration, an Unending Debate

Grassroots: Criminalizing the Homeless Again

Two Poems

Readings: January

Substack, Nazis, and Me

TBT: The Straw That stirred

Grassroots Preview: War is a Virus

Sunday Poem: On Pharaoh Sanders

The Real Rot in Higher Ed

Extra Innings: Baseball Poems