Communication and Change
Also published at dastardlycleverness.com and as Episode 48 of the Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good podcast. On the one hand, Trumpist attacks on Critical Race Theory are in obvious bad faith: just more of the same race-based … [Continue reading] about A Guide for the Confused: “Wokeism,” Critical Theory, and Critical Race Theory
The crisis we’re going through now isn’t a struggle between right and left, but between illiberalism and liberalism, on both the right and the left. It’s the latest battle in a war that has been going on for a very long time. It amounts to a … [Continue reading] about A War of Elites: The Intolerant Right vs. the Intolerant Left
As today’s Congressional testimony makes so powerfully clear, what we’re going through isn’t a political crisis, it’s a moral crisis. Until we face that as a nation, there can’t be any “moving on.” One of the greatest strengths of democracy is … [Continue reading] about We can’t just “move on” from a moral crisis
Much of what Americans think they know about gun violence costs, causes, and solutions is wrong. To help fix that, The Guardian has been running a series of in-depth stories called “Guns and Lies.” Its lead reporter is my guest on Episode 44 of … [Continue reading] about On the Podcast: Guns and Lies
A few weeks ago the right wing media’s latest scam scandal — hereinafter known as a scamdal — was about the mainstream media supposedly hyping the story of Ted Cruz in Cancun, while burying allegations against Andrew Cuomo. Surprise, it wasn’t … [Continue reading] about Scam + Scandal = Scamdal