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  • SOURCE: Boston Review
    4/26/2021

    Police Reform Doesn’t Work

    by Michael Brenes

    Liberal calls for police reform operate within an ideological context where preserving order and enforcing private responsibility for social problems suppresses considering inequality. Minneapolis, the site of Derek Chauvin's trial and the killing of Daunte Wright, is an illustrative example. 

  • SOURCE: BIG by Matt Stoller
    4/25/2021

    Break Up the Ivy League Cartel

    by Sam Haselby

    The incredible wealth of Ivy League and other elite universities, combined with their ever-dwindling acceptance rates, suggests that contemporary meritocracy is working to reproduce a tiny economic and political elite at the expense of democracy. 

  • SOURCE: The Metropole
    4/26/2021

    The Perils Of Participation

    by Amanda Phillips de Lucas

    The construction of US Highway 40 in West Baltimore blighted a Black community with far-reaching results. But it's important to understand that road planners used a selective idea of participatory planning to manufacture community consent for the project. 

  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    4/22/2021

    The Crushing Contradictions of the American University

    by Chad Wellmon

    The proliferation of student loan debt reflects the acceptance by banks, borrowers, and the federal government of the idea that higher education is transformative and beneficial. Is this ideology bordering on magical thinking? 

  • SOURCE: Reason
    4/27/2021

    Elegy for Op-Ed

    by Michael J. Socolow

    The decision by the Times to rebrand its outside commentaries reflects its failure to fight consistently over the years for the open exchange of ideas and to differentiate the views it published from its own official positions. 

  • SOURCE: Daily Princetonian
    4/26/2021

    Princeton Owes the Families of the MOVE Bombing Victims Answers

    by Judith Weisenfeld, Ruha Benjamin et al.

    Members of the Princeton faculty argue that "the victims of the MOVE bombing, their families, and those of us at Princeton invested in Black history and communities deserve more" than the university's statements to date about the use of remains of the victims. 

  • SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
    4/25/2021

    Women Dominate One Academy Award Category. Here’s Why

    by David Resha

    Women have dominated the Documentary Feature category at the Academy Awards, and have indeed shaped the genre from the beginning. But this reflects the fact that the film industry has been more willing to entrust leadership to women in the low-cost, low-stakes environment of documentaries than in feature film. 

  • SOURCE: TomDispatch
    4/27/2021

    Waiting for the Cyber-Apocalypse

    by John Feffer

    The latest iteration of imperial blowback is coming in the form of cyberwarfare techniques pioneered by US intelligence agencies being turned against the country's patchwork internet security. 

  • SOURCE: Foreign Exchanges
    4/26/2021

    Necessary but Not Sufficient

    by Daniel Bessner

    The 2001 AUMF in effect has become yet another tool to enable the United States to prosecute a series of endless wars in the Global South.

  • SOURCE: Black Perspectives
    4/26/2021

    The MOVE Bombing and the Callous Handling of Black Remains

    by Jessica Parr

    The remains of the victims of the Philadelphia Police Department's bombing of the MOVE organization in 1985, including two children, were acquired by the University of Pennsylvania, stored outside of climate control, passed on to Princeton, and eventually lost, a final indignity to the victims. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    4/19/2021

    Howard University’s Removal of Classics is a Spiritual Catastrophe

    by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate

    Despite some contemporary multicultural critiques, the literary and intellectual traditions of the West can and must be separated from "the crimes of the West." If Frederick Douglass and MLK drew on these traditions in struggles for freedom, then Howard University must continue to teach them. 

  • SOURCE: Foreign Policy
    4/16/2021

    Biden Just Made a Historic Break With the Logic of Forever War

    by Stephen Wertheim

    A historian of American interventionism says that Joe Biden's apparent determination to withdraw from Afghanistan is a significant break from recent precedents, and possibly signals a shift away from perpetual war. 

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    4/16/2021

    Vaccine Hesitancy is a 21st-Century Phenomenon

    by Gareth Millward

    The progress of public health practice means that today's policymakers seek to make vaccination widespread enough to eradicate, rather than suppress, disease. Looking at success as a continuum could lead to more constructive approaches to work toward eradication. 

  • SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
    4/16/2021

    The Conservatism of My Teaching: Seven Elements

    by Jonathan Wilson

    Despite the frequent accusations of liberal indoctrination, many history teachers' work is, at a deep level, conservative: it respects the past, focuses on community, and is tethered to the current needs of students and the legacy of scholarship.