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  • At Sixty-Five, the Peace Symbol Endures; Peace Not So Much

    At Sixty-Five, the Peace Symbol Endures; Peace Not So Much

    Banksy used it in an art piece; German soccer players wore it on their uniforms to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine; kids in Canada decorated cupcakes with it during its annual fundraising drive. At sixty-five, the Peace Symbol survives. Peace, on the other hand, not so much! Sixty-five years ago, British artist Gerald Holtom […]

  • Sensitivity Rewrites: The Cultural Purging of Roald Dahl

    Sensitivity Rewrites: The Cultural Purging of Roald Dahl

    Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions. For those responsible for setting and policing such policies, the inner judge comes out, stomping on assumed meanings, interpreting and removing things to ensure the masses are not corrupted. Children’s stories and tales have not been exempted from this train of revision, expurgation and […]

  • Living and Learning Against the Odds

    Samira is a young Zanzibari woman who had a big dream. To leave home, have a family and study for a career. In many countries this is done as a matter of course. However, in some places there are many struggles and difficulties, both social and financial, that must be faced. In Samira’s Dream, we […]

  • How to Rebuild the Left

    One might as well state the matter clearly: given the realities of global warming, rampant environmental destruction, escalating imperialistic clashes, and a crisis-prone global economy, there is no hope for the world unless an international left can be resurrected. A left at least as powerful as the one that created social democracy in the wake […]

  • Republican Attacks on Education and Critical Thinking

    Republican Attacks on Education and Critical Thinking

    Have you ever been grilled by little kids asking the question, “Why?” Why is the sky blue? Why does Heather have two moms? Why are you going to work? Why do you need money? Before you know it they have you questioning basic social values you never even thought about. That’s why right-wing Americans attack […]

  • Christian Nationalism vs. the Separation of Church and State

    We have a long tradition in Am­erica of Separation of Church and State that prohi­bits government’s promotion of religion on the one hand, and interference with its free exercise on the other. In their refusal to establish a state church or to favor one religion over another, the Founding Fathers didn’t think that religion was […]

  • Freedom of Speech Victory in New York State!

    Last summer, New York’s dictator… I mean, governor, Kathy Hochul, signed multiple new laws ostensibly in response to a mass shooting in Buffalo, NY. One of the bills related to “online hate” and required social media companies to report “hateful” content. In December 2022, Rumble (the free speech video-sharing platform) sued New York — citing […]

  • Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

    Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

    Orientation Definition of propaganda and the purpose of this article Are the chances better that you’d read this article if I called it The Ten Commandments of Propaganda? The author of the book The Ten Commandments of Propaganda thinks so because you have deep collective associations with the Ten Commandments because of the centuries of […]

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