The Trump Era And Its Discontents (Erick da Silva)
There’s something to be said about the apocalyptic turn that commentary has taken since Donald Trump consolidates his place in the annals of history as the 45th President of the United States. The...
View ArticleTrump Executive Order Highlights American Muslim Communities’ Coming of Age...
Its been a rocky ride for many people since Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States. Despite the many headline-making tweets and controversial cabinet nominations, it...
View ArticleBombs And Moms – DuBois’ Challenge To America’s Racist And Militarist Legacy...
On April 4, 2017, Harlem’s Riverside Baptist Church (along with Iliff School of Theology) hosted a 50th anniversary event to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech, written in...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Trips Abroad And America’s Refracted “Nervous System” (Roger...
The fallout of the popular right’s success in the United States has been dusting the world for seven months now. Donald Trump recently signified his alliance with the Christian Right by delivering a...
View ArticleRamadan Becomes Religiously Contentious Issue For Congress (Andrea Stanton)
Ramadan this year began for most American Muslims at sundown on Friday, May 26, and like most other events in the United States today, much discussion of it focused around how the Trump Administration...
View ArticleYoga Practitioners And The Unspoken Global Aspirations Of Indian...
If an individual participates in the global yoga phenomenon in some way, does this leave them susceptible to becoming an unwitting supporter of a violent Hindu nationalist ideology? And, does this make...
View ArticleGlasnost American Style – Is Russia Working To Destabilize The US Despite...
The latest revelations and speculations concerning possible Trump Campaign collusion with Russia and its government have centered on a 20-minute meeting between between Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort...
View ArticleIs The Global Prestige Of Sanskrit Aiding And Abetting Hindu Nationalists And...
The utopian aspirations of the Hindu supremacist agenda, which I discussed in an earlier article, include replacing English with Sanskrit as the dominant language of India and perhaps as the next...
View ArticleLocked and Loaded For North Korea – Han Shot First, John Wayne Would Not Have...
This has been a week of escalating rhetoric over North Korean nuclear ambitions with President Trump threatening to rain down ‘fire and fury’ on the hermit kingdom, and claiming that a US attack force...
View ArticleThe Irony Of Environmental History (David Barr and Jeremy Sabella)
The following inaugurates an occasional symposium on contemporary politics through a Niebuhrian lens. The original posts on which these discussions are based may be found here. The debates around the...
View ArticleThe Center Cannot Hold (Martin Katchen)
In the opening lines of his famous poem of 1919 entitled The Second Coming, just as the apocalyptic “Great War” (what today we call World War I) ended, William Butler Yeats wrote the following: Turning...
View ArticleOn Reading Balibar In Light Of The National Anthem Protests (Carl Raschke)
It is not often that the lobbing of one of Donald Trump’s weekly twitter grenades offers an occasion to ponder the deeper dimensions of modern political thinking. But the latest political demolition...
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